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OK, so I have 4 HDs that need to be destroyed. (Unfortunately, I don't
have a SCSI controller capable of operating them, so I can't erase them
that way.)
In the past, what I've done is drill through the platters with a power
tool. (Yes, stupid I know, but the Director of IT thinks this is... a
perfectly acceptable way to destroy the data.) Fortunately, with the IDE
drives found in desktops, the drill cuts through them like a hot knife
through butter. Unfortunately, these SCSI server-class drives appear to
be made of Kryptonite or something, because the drill simply dances
around the place, barely scratching the metal.
Oh dear.
Well, maybe if I take the lid off... ah. Star-drive screws, just
*slightly* smaller than the smallest screwdriver we possess. Damn.
Enter stage right: My dad. If you want to destroy something, he's your man.
He grabs a pair of fat, chunky screwdrivers, and manages to wedge one
between the lid and the body, and proceeds to lever the lid off. Screws
pop out and fly across the room at supersonic velocities. These drives
are made of some serious metal, but somehow my dad bends the lid until
it looks like a crumpled sheet of cardboard. He tries to bash in the
platters, but they're really sturdy. So I drill through them instead.
Well, that was the Maxtor drive. The other three are IBM. He picks up
the first one and tries to lever off the lid. As he's levering it up, I
hear a loud crack. Turning the drive over, there's a melodious jingling
sound. We shake the drive a little, and shards of silvered glass tumble
out. We shake it some more, and dragually big chunks of platter tumble
out. When we finally get the lid off, the platters have *shattered*
clean through. (Obviously my dad was levering against the platters
themselves.)
We proceed to destroy the other two drives in the same way. Damn, I'm
glad we both had glasses on! When those things snap, they blast glass
dust and glass shards everywhere with considerable violence. The final
disk, my dad snapped it, and we turned it over the bin. What came out
was more or less sand. I guess you had to be there... it was really
quite funny. Well, *we* both laughed our arses off! ;-)
Mmm, shattered glass. This might take a while to clear up...
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