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- atbnet, on 05/02/2008, -3/+89You know what else destroys hard drives? Thermite!
- h0ms4r, on 05/02/2008, -12/+78OM NOM NOM NOM
- pilesAREbetter, on 05/02/2008, -5/+57$11,500? That's lots of money for something a hammer can do.
- danielsamuels, on 05/02/2008, -2/+53...and people say Apple equipment is overpriced. 11K for a drill?
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -5/+55I read "Hard Dick Crusher" and was instantly afraid.
- mrtrevin, on 05/02/2008, -2/+47FTA: "The Crusher can even work with an emergency hand pump in case your building is surrounded by enemy forces who have cut off the power."
Very nice. - AkatsukiNoTobi, on 05/02/2008, -10/+39Wow I can do that for free. Just give me a hammer and I can do the same work in 10 seconds.
- theOster, on 05/02/2008, -0/+24i did the same thing and when i booted, windows Me came up
- cobalt8888, on 05/02/2008, -3/+22Man, I totally read that headline wrong. Somehow I saw the 's' as a 'c' and almost freaked out.
Reminds me of when I read the Hadron Collider headline wrong. - DrDigg, on 05/02/2008, -1/+19iCrusher?
- krusader3z, on 05/02/2008, -3/+21http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2477/vanxt0kr1u ...
Is looking for just such a device. - adriankeith, on 05/02/2008, -0/+17you can sand down what??
- h0ms4r, on 05/02/2008, -0/+16More Cookie Monster than Pac-Man, I'd say.
- r3s0p, on 05/02/2008, -0/+13Lame. You need the hard drive mulcher
http://www.komarindustries.com/video/quad-harddriv ... - ogre2112, on 05/02/2008, -0/+13Notebook (2.5") hard drives are easy. Crack the sucker open with a screwdriver and the platters shatter like glass.
- heyimcamcook, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12uhh...why do you have to be alone with it?
- JohnFlux, on 05/02/2008, -0/+12I would pay 11,500 just to be allowed to throw lots of HDs at you :-D
- Ramble, on 05/02/2008, -3/+15I doubt it. have you tried hammering one? They're pretty tough little things.
- Jektal, on 05/02/2008, -1/+12Maybe... But that $11,500 is still a LOT of money for a pneumatic press, which appears to be all this is - a big press with a HDD-shaped cradle and a conical "punch"
- pongx, on 05/02/2008, -3/+14Yes, but will it blend?
- logan074, on 05/02/2008, -0/+11I think you are missing the point
- Fenny, on 05/02/2008, -0/+10Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qImGK8bHjE
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -0/+10There are far better ways of killing your hard drive:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ... - Firehed, on 05/02/2008, -0/+10Have you taken apart a hard drive before? I expect not, as if you had you'd realize that there are some of the strongest magnets you've ever dealt with inside of them. Ones that when you get them stuck together, you simply can NOT pry them apart - you have to slide the pieces across each other until there's little contact and then fully break the connection very quickly or else break your finger when the smash back together.
If of course depends how strong the magnets you're dealing with are, but HDs are pretty resilient. You can rest assured that the people paranoid about using a magnetic-tipped screwdriver are just that - paranoid. - redxxx, on 05/02/2008, -0/+10That sounds worse than loosing the data.
- FredFredrickson, on 05/02/2008, -0/+10Of course I have... but since when was the noise Pac Man made "NOM NOM NOM"?
- crash331, on 05/02/2008, -0/+9Oh, and the reason this machine costs 11.5K is because data centers will pay that, especially for clients like Google who have tons of private data and one little slip-up could cost millions or billions.
- MikeFallopian, on 05/02/2008, -2/+11A 1.21 jigawatt electro-magnet also does the trick, by both destroying the data and sending the drive back in time to before the data even existed.
- crash331, on 05/02/2008, -1/+10We had these machines when I worked for Google. Pretty fun to do, but when you have 15 pallets (40 boxes of 20 HDDs each), or 12000, to destroy, the fun quickly fades.
- psionicdream, on 05/02/2008, -0/+8Just watch Ramzi work his magic:
http://revision3.com/thebroken/ep3/ - SanTe, on 05/02/2008, -0/+8Yup. Pac-Man is Wocka Wocka. Ask any of us old fart 35 to 45-year-olds. :)
- sodypop77, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7Platters can be made of glass, ceramic, or metal.
- grodrigu, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7I'd be afraid of Rosie O'Donnell too
- nogami, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7A local recycling center is buying one - whenever a computer is dropped off for recycling, they remove the drive and use a machine like this to permanently destroy the drive to make sure data theft doesn't occur. I believe they also let the customer press the button if they want so they can personally see the old drive being destroyed :)
- DefiantDragon, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7Yeah, I bet the White House is gonna be a big fan of these...
- BrokenCircle, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7***** your hammer. When I was younger I would just go down to a local construction site and pick up a big rock to smash Cobra Commander; a hard drive should be no different.
- kodax, on 05/02/2008, -0/+6Funny...I ran industrial strength magnets while XP was running. I then removed the drive and soaked it in a chemical solvent for 3 hours and then set it on fire...making sure to leave the SATA connection intact. When I put the hard drive back into the machine, it booted into Vista.
- theOster, on 05/02/2008, -1/+7http://omnomnomnom.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=om+ ... - Alphateam, on 05/02/2008, -0/+6Impossible. That would suggest she could get someone hard.
- ruca, on 05/02/2008, -0/+6afk...nipple sanding
- kipmartin, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5give your computer to my ex-wife and she will render that harddrive unuseable--it will never work again. trust me.
- PacketScan, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Technically.. you can sand down those nipples.. you can take the platters and remount them.. Possiblely getting some data.
You need to totally and completely destroy the magnetism of the drive. - RudeTurnip, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Man, I wish they'd do a couple more episodes of The Broken.
- ihavebeenseen, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5If by hard drive you mean "the man", then yes.
- sodypop77, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5I prefer to open my hard drives up and recover the rare earth magnets inside before busting up the platters. I've collected about 50 of them in the past 2 years in various shapes and sizes. All you need are some torx drivers.
- pilesAREbetter, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5This guy did it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnUGqV_B1SM - GiJoeBob, on 05/02/2008, -0/+4plus it's cheaper and a lot more entertaining!
- aserer511, on 05/02/2008, -0/+411k for a pneumatic drill? are you ***** KIDDING ME?
- driftwood07, on 05/02/2008, -0/+4as someone stated above , that price is set there for large data collecting companys that can afford the price tag and just need an efficient-effective way of destroying a huge number of drives with certainty. a large corporation is not going to send its employees outside with hammers to /maybe/ destroy a stack of 500 harddrives of critical data .
- cawpin, on 05/02/2008, -0/+4I hope you aren't cooking food in that microwave after using it for that.
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