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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into |
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>little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. |
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>Could be an urban legend though. |
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>All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) |
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I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data |
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off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious |
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scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that, |
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they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one |
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and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar |
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code sort of. |
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Whatever you use, if it does it quickly, it ain't worth the time. |
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Really erasing something and rewriting data over it takes a bit of |
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time. That little light should be on a while. I still wouldn't count |
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on it. Shreading it and putting it in concrete may be a good idea. |
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Maybe putting it in a MRI machine would help too. I would leave the |
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room though. O_O |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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