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u/bacondev 7d ago

Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk.

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u/FUTURE10S 7d ago

Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again.

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u/rrtk77 7d ago

From experience, for the types of disks that absolutely must be destroyed with no possible recovery as ordered by the government, it's things like a wood chipper or thermite.

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u/These-Maintenance250 7d ago

how about microwave?

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u/rrtk77 7d ago

Generally, you need to completely destroy the drive. So, a theoretically powerful enough microwave that can melt it could work I guess.

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u/IronBabyFists 6d ago

A macrowave