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| From | Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? |
| Date | 2018-04-03 18:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <vAwvL-1rm-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 13:07:48 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: >> Heating the disks to well above the Curie point of the magnetic coating >> is guaranteed to destroy all the data. > > But how to determine what the curie point of the particular drives is > might be taxing. And the contents of disks have been recovered from > drives in buildings consumed by fire. Not really. Toss into a crucible, wait until it has melted. In the event the drives use "standard" ceramics, this is only about 1600 C (slightly hotter than iron, slightly cooler than titanium) Even your standard propane blowtorch will hit upwards of that temperature in air. Granted, you'd do better using a 2-gas propane + oxygen (2800 C) or acetylene + oxygen (3100 C) setup. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
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Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-04-02 18:30 +0200
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Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-04-02 19:30 +0200
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Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-03 17:20 +0200
Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-03 18:00 +0200
Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-04-02 19:30 +0200
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