Recover This! - Drive Slagging | Complete Data Destruction on eecue.com - (dave bullock) Recover This! Due to the recent MIT study concerning data recovery from old hard drives, we decided that the only fool proof means of data removal was complete destruction of the disk platters. We started with two hard drives that had failed for various reasons. We finally decided that the only sure way to thwart data recovery was to melt down all the aluminum contained in the platters. We started by putting the drives into a steel crucible: Next CHS fired up Arclight's furnace and adjusted the flame for proper heat dispersion: Then he inserted the crucible into the furnace: After a few minutes we noticed toxic smoke rising from the furnace vent and decided to take a look inside. We realized we should have removed the PCBs from the drives first... oh well: Pretty soon the only solids left in the crucible were the steel caps that enclose the case: Once we removed those we saw that the woven fiberglass inside the PCBs still remained: We then poured the molten aluminum into out ingot cast:
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