Wrong poster. Your post was meant for OldMissileer. I do not have a MAPP gas torch.
However, the 8 pound sledge will not do the trick. There are companies that can reassemble broken disks and/or reconstruct the data, even if it is done piecemeal.
Thanks for the correction, and pinging the right poster.
However, the 8 pound sledge will not do the trick. There are companies that can reassemble broken disks and/or reconstruct the data, even if it is done piecemeal.
Agree there are companies that know how to put together broken disk and re-assemble information piecemeal. Now here's a question:
Who am I most worried about getting my information off an old/failed hard drive? Johnny Hacker who found my disk drive in a pile of old computer equipment at the local recycling place, or a company that's going to spend hundreds of hours piecing shattered platters back together to re-assemble my information?
I'm not worried about the company that has the facilities to do it, because it'll cost some Johnny Hacker alot more to take it there and get the information off, than the information is worth.
So my 8 pound sledgehammer dropped from 5-6 feet works just fine for my personal purposes.
Now, at the large multi-national bank I work for? We don't send the disk drives off site until they're shredded. Doesn't matter if it comes out of a PC, one of our Servers, or one of our huge enterprise class storage arrays. They all go through a shredder that makes metal confetti out of 'em.
No one can re-assemble that. :-)