Microwave it idk
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moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 10 hours agoThis is not truly foolproof. Data can still be recovered from the spinning metal platter since it can theoretically be removed and put into a recovery device, even in a broken state.
Im addition to that, hard drives/ssd’s have sometimes have small flash memory chips, from which data can sometimes be recovered.
If you want it to actually be unrecoverable then you have to actually ensure all parts thay store data are truly deleted/wiped. Or just use encryption and throw away the key. Or just store them forever in a vault.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Bud, if put that platter back together after I snipped it, you deserve every bit of data you got off it, 1000%
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 hours ago
It’s not that hard though. There are companies that offer data recovery as a service. If the value of the data on those drives exceeds the cost of those services then it becomes worth it to fish one of the drives out of the dumpster and take it there.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This is a very specialized job, your acg joe is not going to do it. Also, in the many years I’ve been in IT, I’ve never even seen a video of a platter reconstructed and get data off it.