Hard drives are extremely tough and hard to break , it takes alot of force to smash one.
You can drop a hard drive two stories high and it will barely dent
Also are you trying to tell me that the data was not backed up on a server or another hard drive? Yeah right
What’s 280-350 G-force like?
They don’t smash them. They shred stuff like hard drives with industrial sized shredders. They could shred a toaster like it was tissue.
Of course we know the emails/data still exist.
Trust me on this, I work in the industry. You can beat the livin $h!7 out of a hard drive and the platen will remain totally intact. That platen can be removed and data recovered from it with no problem.
The FBI does it every day, day in, day out. Besides, if the IRS was cycling old drives out and refreshing their systems with new drives, they'd have no reason to destroy them in this manner. They would likely erase the data and send them to a contractor for proper “secure” disposal.
This whole story is a crock.
I’ve been told a strong magnet will trash whatever is on a hard drive. If not that, what about something that scratches it so it can’t be read?
Yeah, you would have to have on, spinnung, even better moving the heads reading or writing. In fact, doing a disk check or defragment operation would be best - moving the heads all over the platters. Then, while that is going on, kick the ever living sh*t out of the machine. Pick it up, drop it, etc. Get the heads to physically slam into the platters, literally gouging out the magnetic coating. Other than that, it is very hard to kill a modern drive on demand. No way, absolutely no G-D way I believe her drive so conveniently crashing was an accident.