TSS Thermite HDD

LastHour1 Says:

Oct 17, 2006 - HOLY FUCK! I like the thermite reaction.

chartster Says:

Nov 20, 2006 - LOL! That thermite is the best. The charred wreck of a PC is worth a few laughs.

antymperio Says:

Jun 6, 2007 - thwe best way to erase any data is microwave, destroy everi thing on cd's and HDD

cwestside Says:

Jun 6, 2007 - go ahead try and microwave a plater from a HDD nothing will happen same thing happens when you put a spoon in the microwave if there is no ARC nothing happens try crinkling up some tin foil and throw it in and you will see what happens when theres an ARC

fumatu Says:

Sep 10, 2007 - it's called formating, it won't hurt nobody ;)

cwestside Says:

Sep 10, 2007 - formatting is recoverable. government spec is to destroy the platters. ie grind them in to sand

Assi2004 Says:

Jan 7, 2008 - just rewrite whit zeros...there are programs for that, eg. from western digital

MD2389 Says:

Feb 4, 2008 - You can actually still recover data from that. DOD spec I believe is to write data to a given sector(s) atleast 5 - 7 times before its "gone". A simple low-level format (which is what you described) is not sufficient.

Assi2004 Says:

Feb 5, 2008 - it not a low-lvl format?its no high-lvl formatting toothats a very different beast!go check wikipedia or any other side if u dont believe meand now u tell me, how to recover data from that!

mistahtom Says:

May 5, 2008 - Lern too spell NEIGHBORHOOD and WHILE dummy

KelynTyme Says:

Dec 18, 2008 - The method I've heard of to retrieve data from a formatted disk that someone with a lot of money to throw at it (government?) can use involved an electron microscope. Look at the disk, see where the faint differences in charge are still at, and map the data off of that.That being said, I have no idea of the actual process, as that is FAR beyond my needs, and I highly doubt that anything I'm likely to have on my hard drive would merit anything that interesting.

cwestside Says:

Jun 16, 2009 - the acid corroded the top layer of the disk so i don't think it can be read by the electron microscope. if it ate the aluminum cover it ate some of the layers of the disk also.

Splooshiba Says:

Sep 17, 2009 - not quite as safe as a melted block of hard drive tho is it? or sand?

TomaCukor Says:

Dec 9, 2009 - oh calm the fuck down u internet dog

TheHiddenPart Says:

Sep 22, 2010 - just sandblast the platters. It's not as cool as other options, but it'll work.

punxsutawneybarney Says:

Jun 12, 2011 - For use of thermite in cutting steel, see my video "Incendiary Experiments".The mythbusters guys set off 1000 pounds of thermite to try to cut a car in half, and explosives experts at New Mexico Tech try to cut a column and a beam, and a Florida Engineer, Jonathan Cole, cuts columns, beams, bolt heads, and bolts.