What really would have been interesting is to see if the data is still present on the platter when you replace the Main PCB of the HDD. They are often interchangeable
they are not really interchangeable. BUT, recovery companies can configure them to be compatible. it's all about the platters for the data. the data does not go away with microwaving the outside.
One of the better ways to truely delete the data (apart from shattering the internal platters) is to heat them past their curie temperature, which permanently demagnetizes them.
@@shadewood3083 yeah but the data is written magnetically. So even if the drive survives datas fucked. (The drive wont survive.) What i was suggesting will turn the whole thing into slag.
@@shadewood3083 When it's in thin-film applications (like the HDD) the curie point decreases dramatically, with some research online I found it is probably less than 200c (473K)
Drilling through hard drives is how we destroyed drives to federal standards at the recycle/refurb warehouse. It was a shame to see so many rare working MFM drives just destroyed.
WTF MFM drives......PAIN. No wonder the eBay sellers are asking ridiculous amounts, the market sucks for stuff like that due to that reason, most of them are just permanently destroyed once out of service....
really? better cover 100% of disk with holes.. :-) aka melt them, its got platinum in it lol........ kidding,federal standards seem quite low to anonymous.... they cracked the fbi database in aprox, 33 seconds :o who the heck knows what there capable of,,,, good thing there on our side lol
Harddrive are actually really resistent to shocks when powered off. However when powered on, theyre super sensitive. Hence why laptop drives often die when people bump the machine
drives were imune to that long ago, there's a bar across the head so it cant hit the platter... funny my father helpedd promote it. droppin a pc on the floor while running,,, the reaction he said was.... gasps.... lol its dead Jim..... but note on it went.... then I recall laptops coming ouut a coulple years later and we got a free IBM thinkpad... weird musta been show of appreciation back then cuz they dont give a crap about ppl now.... why there's programs you cant delete..... before it was total control with DOS the winshit came out.
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk So uh 1. Hard drives are more immune now 2. Your father promotes it 3. Then you guys get a free Thinkpad (which is rare nowadays that corporations give away free stuff(?)) 4. DOS gave more control (of the hardware(?)) than windows (NT(?))
yeah, and you especially want to be doing lots of reading or better yet writing while banging it too, maybe while booting, or defragging, that'll ruin your day.....D
The magnets would work, but only if you used them on the magnetic discs themselves. Because like you did it, they are protected from the metal shell like in a Faraday cage.
@@raven4k998 yes many of them are made up of aluminum, they will put some magnetic material on top of that, opened one 80 Gb hard disk from 2006 today to see the aluminum platter.
what about a bulk tape eraser? it's a powerful electromagnet meant to erase magnetic media (casettes, VHS, etc) in a matter of seconds. I believe it's what the pros use.
No, businesses usualy just let them be shred. Bulk erazers are from a time where you often would reuse tapes or floppies, they would destroy the mechnicle parts of a HDD anyway, so they just get shredded. If you wanna keep em working, you'd use a save eraze proccess of overwriting the data - at least with mechanical HDDs. Doesn't work well enough with SSDs and if it's soldere to the mainboard, the entire computer gets scrapped.
They do make degaussers for hard drives.. But these degaussers are on an entire another level compared to a bulk tape eraser .. Think the cost is somewhere around $20K and above. Most businesses take the drives to another business to shred the drives; like a big paper shredder. We did this at work; the shredder came with their truck, they videotape the entire process, and provide a certification that the drives are shredded. Did like 650+ drives that day. Still expensive. To be honest, the best approach is software & time; there's software that you can boot and shred the drives by overwriting the drives a number of times using certain patterns. The lazy man's approach would be to configure bitlocker or some other full disk encryption program into action, and encrypt the ENTIRE drive, and be sure to lose the key.
All of the hard drives will still have the data on it, like he explained at the end. People have recovered data from hard drives in plane crashes and mostly burned up.
The reason the HDD survived at 1:54 is because it has a seal between the actual mechanics and the outside which makes it waterproof. Maybe the board too? and also the hard drive still worked because they're sealed to prevent dust from corrupting data.
I'd love to see part 2! I have a couple of dead HDDs that I've kept, hoping I can afford to recover the data someday. Your video will either give me confidence or make me doubt sending them to a professional data recovery service.
Definitely worth a shot; a lot of small reputable businesses do good work for affordable prices versus the thousands than many big name companies will quote. Most common failure is the heads; headswap may be all it needs.
2 methods that will render all data unreadable. 1) sharp blow(s) to the spindle with a hammer. This will shatter the discs inside without making much of a mess. 2) take it to the shooting range. Lead traveling at roughly 1000fps should be enough to compromise the data.
One of the ways we destroyed the hard drives at my old workplace because we dealt with sensitive data was my boss would disassemble them and then he'd give the parts to me. And my favorite way to spend the afternoon was drilled pressing the disk platters. And setting the inclosures on fire. I can guarantee you after being drilled, put in saltwater, and set on fire. That data was gone.
I have a better idea: don't do it unless absolutely necessary. If the hard drive it's not damaged, it's still a free storage to use. Just buy an external enclosure for it and your good to go. If you really need to wipe all the data running a few times something like: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/$DISC should do the job. But if you really need to physically destroy it, use a furnace and melt the platters.
Microvawe was actually not effective, because while it did kill the circuitboard, all the data is still on the platter and can be recovered. Same goes for the water and the toaster, the internals might not be damaged. Galium method also wouldn't work for direct platter contact an any drive because every harddrive has a protective and magnetic layer over the platter witch would stop the reaction, alltho oppening the drive by itself will kill it. Dropping it will kill the R/W heads, but the platter is good and data is recoverable. The vinyil one was funny, put it in a CD/DVD for some funny noises (i tested it) Might be fun if you sealed the "breathing" hole and just continiued using it to see how long it lasts.
Answer is For some drive yes For some drive no If controllers have self encrypted Then is controller died then data on disk make no sense anymore Data just garbage
@@filenotfound__3871 more depends And maybe rom and controller is bind together Means you can’t replace other controller And most likely rom is in controller
My go to has always been opening the drives, scratching the crap out of them and then bending the platters befote cutting them with an angle grinder. You may say overkill, but i say effective. (Also fun fact laptop hard drives sometimes use a brittle material for the platter, I've had one shatter in my hand while just trying to bend it slightly by hand)
There's a gun range next to the BBQ place here. If we have drives which need to go, we take them over to the range and fire off a few rounds at lunch time. Highly effective and very therapeutic.
The microwave test was done in the most dangerous way possible lmao Just all safety precautions absent like not doing the test outdoors, not having heat resisting gloves, and having nothing to put out a fire nearby on hand too The fire after the sparks might have been a shock and unexpected, but surely if you know that metal sparks in microwave, that fire is a risk in this experiment, but it was was still done indoors with no safety precautions at all Says not to try this at home; proceeds to try it at home
i used to work in a data repair company and we had these contracts with the government to destroy hardrives we shreded the platers in to dust and then ran the dust in a magnetizer demagnetizer.
I've been considering doing this on an old 2gb HDD that still spins but won't initialize. I was thinking I would seal it in plastic bags with a usb reader attached and the wires sticking out. I just need to clone it so it should work long enough. I came to this idea from using an upside down canned air for diagnosing bad transistors in old radios.
well you know patients can destroy the data but that takes decades to do believe it or not cause that magnetic coating degrades slowly over time getting weaker this is why old hard dives for old computers like 486's do not work as well as brand new magnetic hard drives cause that coating has degraded to the point that data reading in no longer reliable at all on them
The reason a car doesn't work is bc the rubber tires distribute the pressure. If a car had metal wheels like a train, you'd see a fair bit more damage probably, but even so the pressure isn't that insane. Speaking of trains tho... (probably shouldn't try it tho, wouldn't wanna be liable for causing a derailment) it'd be interesting to see like how much it takes to crush it with a hydraulic press tho, I'm sure there's some channels who wouldn't mind helping out in finding out the answer to that lol As far as the microwave and water goes, you've definitely fried the supporting hardware, but I wonder if the disk itself is still ok? A professional could probably transplant the disk with new supporting hardware to recover the data if needed I'd imagine, so it'd be interesting to see just how much the disk itself was messed up by the fields in the microwave. Definitely interested in that followup! I'd bet the toaster warped the disk, I think that would be probably one of the most effective ways. The platter going above a certain temp should make it lose the ability to store magnetic charges, and warping it would make it further just unable to be spun, so I think heat is really the way to go. Jabbing some holes in it with a soldering iron would probably be super effective lol The reason regular magnets don't work, is because the harddrive uses magnets a fraction of a millimeter away from the disk, so you either need something really strong or really close. That's why dropping a (older) harddrive can kill it, the disk can bump into that magnetic head while spinning and take out a huge gouge. Modern drives can detect the freefall and will park the head away from the disk and stop the spinning to help avoid damage tho
To avoid any chance of data recovery, one would need to make the platters dissapear. So, after drilling, leave them in acid for months. If no acid, then get on a boat and throw them one by one, across large distances, to the sea. Deepness to hide them, and salt water may help the corrosion.
Yes, microwave it. I had an old pair of leather gloves that were too big. So I sprayed them with water, put them in the microwave oven for a few seconds. This shrunk the gloves down to the perfect size. LOL
@@slothvole bc pennies manufactured before 1982 were 95% copper unlike todays pennies which are only 5%, so in theory it’d be more thermally conductive and do a better job cooling the cpu.
Just smash it to bits with Sledgehammer, Aint no way in hell data can be recovered after that. Back in the days this is how we used to "hide" accounting in our company at the orders from our boss.
These all awesome, but most of it not wreck the data on the platter. The sure way: sand the platter, spin up and give it a good tap, and the platter shatters
The only true way is to first overwrite the data. However many times you want. Then fully disassemble the hdd, using a torch on the platters and then grinding them up into a powder. You also have to burn the PCB. The rest doesn't matter but I am sure big tech will also destroy the read headers just in case there is some secret hidden memory in there.
TIP: The only way to truly destroy a Hard Drive is to physically break, or malform the platter. It is still possible for recovery companies to get things like the motor and the head to work.
in case anyone is curious, AWS datacenters use machines called degaussers which are machines with very powerful magnets that scramble the data, then they get smashed by a mangleR (yes its called a mangleR) which essentially bends and smashes the disks to pieces :)
1:50 Just because your HDD is no longer accessing data does not mean you cannot get the data off the physical disk platters. EDIT: Ah, you mentioned that at the end of your video 👏👏👏
HDD platters are coated in ferrous material and even if they are from aluminum you would need to scratch off the ferrous material. But what about the HDD case? You should try it! Also sugestion - put it into vacuum!
We put them in a hydralic press and mash them. The platters bend or splinter and the frame is bent. We use this when we suspect that information of patients has been stored on them.
When I need to wipe a hard drive I write zeros to it take the platters out scratch them up break him into tiny tiny little shards. And then I scatter them across the entire country.
interesting, the side effect of destroying the drive in the microwave can provide some very convincing incentive not to try to recover the drive (assuming that by some miracle it did not wipe the platters too)
So, it´s 8 months later, as you said in the end, was there enough interest in this video to send the harddrives to a professional data recovery company ?
Fun fact, you're dealing with an HDD that has METAL Platters in it. It is best to remove the platters and just make wind-chimes out of them or just sand them down a little. That's Where the data is and it's stored mostly on the thin layers of platting than anything else. The data isn't being destroyed or removed when you freeze, microwave, or run it over. If this was a Laptop HDD Thins 2.5inch ones, you can just shatter the glass platters and scatter them along the beach or across multiple trash cans... Assuming they're not the Aluminum platters.
I work in a place for hard drive destruction and we use a hydrolic piston with a tip to puncture a hole into the circuit. Only recently it broke so we resorted to sledge hammeing them in... like full on mangle them up
Microwaving it probably didn't reach the platters and other inside components, so the data could be recovered with the help of the circuit board of an identical drive. Why? Because the case is made of matal and has almost no holes. And the shield in the microwave door has a ton of holes and still only lets miniscule amounts of radiation come through.
On the unplugging one, you should give it a write instruction and unplug the sata cable. It should get stuck sending power to writing if the drives logic isn't the most reliable.
Even if circuit board is destroyed, the data can still be recovered from the disk inside (although it might require some special equipment). Therefore the best way would be to hammer the disk into chips. Or simply overwrite the drive multiple times if you're concerned only about data leak.
Data centers like Google and BackBlaze use hydraulic press to crush the old drives. Alternative is drilling three holes into the hard drive which is common for most situations.
toaster, water, and microwave, and dropping can all easily be recovered by someone determined enough, what you want to do is shatter the platter into dust and then dispose if said dust if you really want that data gone forever
What really would have been interesting is to see if the data is still present on the platter when you replace the Main PCB of the HDD.
They are often interchangeable
@@ZoneStudios. or just Unscrew the drive and use sandpaper 😂
burn it so hot that it loses all magnetic properties
@@Napert good idea but smell is problam
they are not really interchangeable. BUT, recovery companies can configure them to be compatible. it's all about the platters for the data. the data does not go away with microwaving the outside.
@@ZoneStudios.Thermite would fully destroy it. Data would still be on those pieces
One of the better ways to truely delete the data (apart from shattering the internal platters) is to heat them past their curie temperature, which permanently demagnetizes them.
So im getting put it in thermite.
@@shadewood3083 yeah but the data is written magnetically. So even if the drive survives datas fucked. (The drive wont survive.) What i was suggesting will turn the whole thing into slag.
@@shadewood3083 When it's in thin-film applications (like the HDD) the curie point decreases dramatically, with some research online I found it is probably less than 200c (473K)
haha another brilliant :-) knowledge is power :-) heat or.... electro magnet? tried ith a 5 pound pulll neodymium magnet, did nothing
Drilling through hard drives is how we destroyed drives to federal standards at the recycle/refurb warehouse.
It was a shame to see so many rare working MFM drives just destroyed.
Nooooooooooo!
WTF MFM drives......PAIN. No wonder the eBay sellers are asking ridiculous amounts, the market sucks for stuff like that due to that reason, most of them are just permanently destroyed once out of service....
what the
really? better cover 100% of disk with holes.. :-) aka melt them, its got platinum in it lol........ kidding,federal standards seem quite low to anonymous.... they cracked the fbi database in aprox, 33 seconds :o who the heck knows what there capable of,,,, good thing there on our side lol
What's an MFM drive?
Harddrive are actually really resistent to shocks when powered off. However when powered on, theyre super sensitive. Hence why laptop drives often die when people bump the machine
drives were imune to that long ago, there's a bar across the head so it cant hit the platter... funny my father helpedd promote it. droppin a pc on the floor while running,,, the reaction he said was.... gasps.... lol its dead Jim..... but note on it went.... then I recall laptops coming ouut a coulple years later and we got a free IBM thinkpad... weird musta been show of appreciation back then cuz they dont give a crap about ppl now.... why there's programs you cant delete..... before it was total control with DOS the winshit came out.
that's why SSD became common
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk
So uh 1. Hard drives are more immune now
2. Your father promotes it
3. Then you guys get a free Thinkpad (which is rare nowadays that corporations give away free stuff(?))
4. DOS gave more control (of the hardware(?)) than windows (NT(?))
yeah, and you especially want to be doing lots of reading or better yet writing while banging it too, maybe while booting, or defragging, that'll ruin your day.....D
My mans really microwaved and toasted a Hard drive 💀
Bro commented before The video came out💀💀
@@JustiisnaWhat r u on about?
Yum
Let's fire up the computer
5 seconds later: NOT LITERALLY
frrrr
The magnets would work, but only if you used them on the magnetic discs themselves. Because like you did it, they are protected from the metal shell like in a Faraday cage.
are any harddisks made of aluminum or is that just a myth?🤔
@@raven4k998 I don't think that there are any hard drives made from aluminum, because it isn't magnetic.
@@raven4k998 yes many of them are made up of aluminum, they will put some magnetic material on top of that, opened one 80 Gb hard disk from 2006 today to see the aluminum platter.
what about a bulk tape eraser? it's a powerful electromagnet meant to erase magnetic media (casettes, VHS, etc) in a matter of seconds.
I believe it's what the pros use.
No, businesses usualy just let them be shred. Bulk erazers are from a time where you often would reuse tapes or floppies, they would destroy the mechnicle parts of a HDD anyway, so they just get shredded. If you wanna keep em working, you'd use a save eraze proccess of overwriting the data - at least with mechanical HDDs. Doesn't work well enough with SSDs and if it's soldere to the mainboard, the entire computer gets scrapped.
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A what?
@@valliantsteed I meant pros as I'm pros back in the day who wanted to blank out their reels.
They do make degaussers for hard drives.. But these degaussers are on an entire another level compared to a bulk tape eraser .. Think the cost is somewhere around $20K and above.
Most businesses take the drives to another business to shred the drives; like a big paper shredder. We did this at work; the shredder came with their truck, they videotape the entire process, and provide a certification that the drives are shredded. Did like 650+ drives that day. Still expensive.
To be honest, the best approach is software & time; there's software that you can boot and shred the drives by overwriting the drives a number of times using certain patterns.
The lazy man's approach would be to configure bitlocker or some other full disk encryption program into action, and encrypt the ENTIRE drive, and be sure to lose the key.
That was fantastic content. Make part 2 and get it to recovery company.
All of the hard drives will still have the data on it, like he explained at the end.
People have recovered data from hard drives in plane crashes and mostly burned up.
No, part 2 should be hard drive waiting for 1 year
The reason the HDD survived at 1:54 is because it has a seal between the actual mechanics and the outside which makes it waterproof. Maybe the board too? and also the hard drive still worked because they're sealed to prevent dust from corrupting data.
Well if you let it sit on a thousand pounds of C4 and set it off I don't think there is anything left to sent it to the date recovery center.
Mythbusters be like:
@@phantomcrafter146 "yeah we couldnt get any c4 so we put a few match boxes underneath and the drive survived, so we can say Myth Busted!"
I'd love to see part 2! I have a couple of dead HDDs that I've kept, hoping I can afford to recover the data someday. Your video will either give me confidence or make me doubt sending them to a professional data recovery service.
Definitely worth a shot; a lot of small reputable businesses do good work for affordable prices versus the thousands than many big name companies will quote.
Most common failure is the heads; headswap may be all it needs.
Looking forward to seeing the data recovery results!
Did it happen?
@@hoteny No clue
@@uss_liberty_incident thanks for the reply
me too
Try putting the hard drive into a Mri scanner, and see if it survives the extreme magnetic 🧲 fields. Thanks for sharing 😊
2 methods that will render all data unreadable.
1) sharp blow(s) to the spindle with a hammer. This will shatter the discs inside without making much of a mess.
2) take it to the shooting range. Lead traveling at roughly 1000fps should be enough to compromise the data.
I love the fact that you push tech so far just to see if it can hold up. Love the content!
microwave the hard disk only if you want a flame thrower🤣🤣🤣
No hard drives were harmed in the making of this video
*Many hard drives were harmed in the making of this video
They were fucking violated.
Real
No, hard drives were destroyed in the making of this video
Bro really dated a hard drive to destroy it💀
One of the ways we destroyed the hard drives at my old workplace because we dealt with sensitive data was my boss would disassemble them and then he'd give the parts to me.
And my favorite way to spend the afternoon was drilled pressing the disk platters.
And setting the inclosures on fire.
I can guarantee you after being drilled, put in saltwater, and set on fire.
That data was gone.
I have a better idea: don't do it unless absolutely necessary. If the hard drive it's not damaged, it's still a free storage to use. Just buy an external enclosure for it and your good to go. If you really need to wipe all the data running a few times something like: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/$DISC should do the job. But if you really need to physically destroy it, use a furnace and melt the platters.
No, most companies destroy drives when it contained sensitive data, it's not enough to run commands to erase data.
What is the /dev/random device file? Can't we use /dev/zero?
@@AlexBarbu that's actually smart, didn't think of it
The point is that its durability test
I feel bad for his victims. Because cmon. Even if its HDD its still have 1TB. Why you didn't pickup like 120 or 300GB drives :(
💀
Microvawe was actually not effective, because while it did kill the circuitboard, all the data is still on the platter and can be recovered.
Same goes for the water and the toaster, the internals might not be damaged.
Galium method also wouldn't work for direct platter contact an any drive because every harddrive has a protective and magnetic layer over the platter witch would stop the reaction, alltho oppening the drive by itself will kill it.
Dropping it will kill the R/W heads, but the platter is good and data is recoverable.
The vinyil one was funny, put it in a CD/DVD for some funny noises (i tested it)
Might be fun if you sealed the "breathing" hole and just continiued using it to see how long it lasts.
Answer is
For some drive yes
For some drive no
If controllers have self encrypted
Then is controller died then data on disk make no sense anymore
Data just garbage
@@leonpano Yes, but that encryption key is located on the rom chip on the drive, it is highly unlikely that it will die from any of theese
@@filenotfound__3871 more depends
And maybe rom and controller is bind together
Means you can’t replace other controller
And most likely rom is in controller
@@leonpano Very rare on consumer harddrives
My go to has always been opening the drives, scratching the crap out of them and then bending the platters befote cutting them with an angle grinder. You may say overkill, but i say effective. (Also fun fact laptop hard drives sometimes use a brittle material for the platter, I've had one shatter in my hand while just trying to bend it slightly by hand)
they only way to make 100% sure on one can ever get data from these is to over wright the data 32 plus times then grind the platters into dust
There's a gun range next to the BBQ place here. If we have drives which need to go, we take them over to the range and fire off a few rounds at lunch time. Highly effective and very therapeutic.
Man as a PC lover, you destroying those hdds really hit me.
The microwave test was done in the most dangerous way possible lmao
Just all safety precautions absent like not doing the test outdoors, not having heat resisting gloves, and having nothing to put out a fire nearby on hand too
The fire after the sparks might have been a shock and unexpected, but surely if you know that metal sparks in microwave, that fire is a risk in this experiment, but it was was still done indoors with no safety precautions at all
Says not to try this at home; proceeds to try it at home
9:23 did i actually just get rickrolled by an hdd😂🤣🙄
James Bond: Dang it it’s encrypted
Criminal: nah I just toasted it
That proposal to the HDD was just fantastic, I couldn't stop laughing until it devolved into a wild coughing XD
i used to work in a data repair company and we had these contracts with the government to destroy hardrives we shreded the platers in to dust and then ran the dust in a magnetizer demagnetizer.
For the freezing one, thats actually a way to make tempremental hard drives OK for a period of time.
I've been considering doing this on an old 2gb HDD that still spins but won't initialize. I was thinking I would seal it in plastic bags with a usb reader attached and the wires sticking out. I just need to clone it so it should work long enough. I came to this idea from using an upside down canned air for diagnosing bad transistors in old radios.
Use ill tempered sea bass if you don't have access to sharks with laser beams 🤦♂️🤣
Tbh the toaster was probably the most dangerous one, I was surprised he didn’t pop a breaker the moment he pushed it down
I use hard drive platters as drink coasters
Poor hard drives😢
1 like to mryeester = 1 prayer
yes
Me: smashes it onto the floor
Just use a paper clip
It’s still recoverable
I would love to see if a recovery company can save the data on the harddrives.
well you know patients can destroy the data but that takes decades to do believe it or not cause that magnetic coating degrades slowly over time getting weaker this is why old hard dives for old computers like 486's do not work as well as brand new magnetic hard drives cause that coating has degraded to the point that data reading in no longer reliable at all on them
The reason a car doesn't work is bc the rubber tires distribute the pressure. If a car had metal wheels like a train, you'd see a fair bit more damage probably, but even so the pressure isn't that insane. Speaking of trains tho... (probably shouldn't try it tho, wouldn't wanna be liable for causing a derailment) it'd be interesting to see like how much it takes to crush it with a hydraulic press tho, I'm sure there's some channels who wouldn't mind helping out in finding out the answer to that lol
As far as the microwave and water goes, you've definitely fried the supporting hardware, but I wonder if the disk itself is still ok?
A professional could probably transplant the disk with new supporting hardware to recover the data if needed I'd imagine, so it'd be interesting to see just how much the disk itself was messed up by the fields in the microwave. Definitely interested in that followup!
I'd bet the toaster warped the disk, I think that would be probably one of the most effective ways. The platter going above a certain temp should make it lose the ability to store magnetic charges, and warping it would make it further just unable to be spun, so I think heat is really the way to go. Jabbing some holes in it with a soldering iron would probably be super effective lol
The reason regular magnets don't work, is because the harddrive uses magnets a fraction of a millimeter away from the disk, so you either need something really strong or really close. That's why dropping a (older) harddrive can kill it, the disk can bump into that magnetic head while spinning and take out a huge gouge. Modern drives can detect the freefall and will park the head away from the disk and stop the spinning to help avoid damage tho
Man don't you hate it when you accidentally microwave your hard drive 😔
To avoid any chance of data recovery, one would need to make the platters dissapear. So, after drilling, leave them in acid for months. If no acid, then get on a boat and throw them one by one, across large distances, to the sea. Deepness to hide them, and salt water may help the corrosion.
Bro is able to go to really long lengths to entertain us.
And I respect that
Yes, microwave it. I had an old pair of leather gloves that were too big. So I sprayed them with water, put them in the microwave oven for a few seconds. This shrunk the gloves down to the perfect size. LOL
Day 2# of asking to cool a cpu with a penny made before 1982
why would u want to see this???
@@slothvole bc pennies manufactured before 1982 were 95% copper unlike todays pennies which are only 5%, so in theory it’d be more thermally conductive and do a better job cooling the cpu.
@@Bron-le5wwso what material are used now?
@@legendmaster1989 they’re mainly zinc with a copper coating(5% copper and 95% zinc). The older pennies used an alloy of 95 % copper and 5% zinc.
@@Bron-le5ww why they switch is it cheaper or something?
7:08 "a Linus special..." Should've included that one clip where he dropped a server hard drive on the floor
He finally did it
Just smash it to bits with Sledgehammer, Aint no way in hell data can be recovered after that. Back in the days this is how we used to "hide" accounting in our company at the orders from our boss.
i mean you could just sand the disks with sandpaper
You should take it apart, spin it up by plugging it in, and then apply the sandpaper! It would be like a reverse spinning sander thingy!
These all awesome, but most of it not wreck the data on the platter.
The sure way: sand the platter, spin up and give it a good tap, and the platter shatters
6:00 HDD rejected you lol
I got a real kick out of the many ways you try to destroy the hard drive. Thank for the laughs
Hey man, I've seen you clean components with alc. But how about testing if they function in alc? (My dumb idea at 3 am)
The only true way is to first overwrite the data. However many times you want. Then fully disassemble the hdd, using a torch on the platters and then grinding them up into a powder. You also have to burn the PCB. The rest doesn't matter but I am sure big tech will also destroy the read headers just in case there is some secret hidden memory in there.
Or you can just melt down your hardeive in a small forge
Cover it in gasoline and melt it into slag
@@AlsoKnownAsWintergasoline wont do it but thermite will XD
@@Gamer-nc8qpwhat about blend it?
@@johncaze757 it would work. The standard for NATO secret information is to degauss the drive. For top secret degauss and destroy.
TIP: The only way to truly destroy a Hard Drive is to physically break, or malform the platter. It is still possible for recovery companies to get things like the motor and the head to work.
And if you drop it, you would have double trouble, a broken disc and floor.
Now I wonder what would happen if you only microwave the disk platter
I dont think you could since just touching the platter can brick the entire drive
Would spark on the outer rim as the microwave wavelengths bounce off of edges, the rest would just be reflected off.
Bro done preparing us for the worst consequences
FBI got nothing on this guy online
I don't think that's what he meant by loving it 💀 5:36
"a Linus special" I'm dying 😂
in case anyone is curious, AWS datacenters use machines called degaussers which are machines with very powerful magnets that scramble the data, then they get smashed by a mangleR (yes its called a mangleR) which essentially bends and smashes the disks to pieces :)
Make a part 2 to try a recovery Company
Genius way to get subscribers, we're already 7:40 in, so we probably subscribe (even tho i might forget)
Next time… Cover it in thermite and light it up. 🔥
Yes send it to a company. I recommend drivesavers, plz do it,love your content
Format the drive and then fill it up completely
5:36 Bro's romancing on a hard drive 💀💀💀
1:50 Just because your HDD is no longer accessing data does not mean you cannot get the data off the physical disk platters.
EDIT: Ah, you mentioned that at the end of your video 👏👏👏
HDD platters are coated in ferrous material and even if they are from aluminum you would need to scratch off the ferrous material. But what about the HDD case? You should try it!
Also sugestion - put it into vacuum!
The shiny stuff is either cobalt samerium or platinum cobalt alloy. The bright silver ones are the PtCo and the more golden ones are the SmCo type.
Thermal paste essence, that made my day🤣I love it
Disassemble it -> melt the disk -> made a fine wire out of it -> dissolve it with acid -> neutralize the acid with bases -> dump it in the drain
We put them in a hydralic press and mash them. The platters bend or splinter and the frame is bent. We use this when we suspect that information of patients has been stored on them.
the stone crusher machine is a sure win....,
another one is a 3422°C furnace...
the combination of both is the champ
The love poetry is something else ❤
When I need to wipe a hard drive I write zeros to it take the platters out scratch them up break him into tiny tiny little shards. And then I scatter them across the entire country.
Idea for part 2: use dynamite
9:21 he went there 💀
interesting, the side effect of destroying the drive in the microwave can provide some very convincing incentive not to try to recover the drive (assuming that by some miracle it did not wipe the platters too)
So, it´s 8 months later, as you said in the end, was there enough interest in this video to send the harddrives to a professional data recovery company ?
2:20 man said frozen water 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:35 “Try to love it” *GET GIFTS THAT LOVE*
Most creative TH-camr I know
You cant stop me im trying this at home
Ask a construction worker to drive a bulldozer over your HDD
as a self made it specialist I recommend a drill press, and dunk it in saline water. this will ruin the drive very fast.
Fun fact, you're dealing with an HDD that has METAL Platters in it.
It is best to remove the platters and just make wind-chimes out of them or just sand them down a little.
That's Where the data is and it's stored mostly on the thin layers of platting than anything else.
The data isn't being destroyed or removed when you freeze, microwave, or run it over.
If this was a Laptop HDD Thins 2.5inch ones, you can just shatter the glass platters and scatter them along the beach or across multiple trash cans... Assuming they're not the Aluminum platters.
This was very interesting I would like to see what happens to the broken hard drives if you send them to a data recovery professional
I work in a place for hard drive destruction and we use a hydrolic piston with a tip to puncture a hole into the circuit. Only recently it broke so we resorted to sledge hammeing them in... like full on mangle them up
Quick formatting several times in different formats & cluster sizes, then wipe free spaces.
Microwaving it probably didn't reach the platters and other inside components, so the data could be recovered with the help of the circuit board of an identical drive. Why? Because the case is made of matal and has almost no holes. And the shield in the microwave door has a ton of holes and still only lets miniscule amounts of radiation come through.
1:27 Yeah my PC runs cyberpunk 2077. 💀
The finest destruction CMU has produced since battle bots
I want a part 2 please. I want to be featured lol
On the unplugging one, you should give it a write instruction and unplug the sata cable. It should get stuck sending power to writing if the drives logic isn't the most reliable.
Even if circuit board is destroyed, the data can still be recovered from the disk inside (although it might require some special equipment). Therefore the best way would be to hammer the disk into chips. Or simply overwrite the drive multiple times if you're concerned only about data leak.
Pov you had to much in your "homework" folder
Data centers like Google and BackBlaze use hydraulic press to crush the old drives. Alternative is drilling three holes into the hard drive which is common for most situations.
ever heard of someone who did a talk at defcon about using thermite? aparanty he got the mixture perfectly to have a almost 100% data destruction
Use a CNC & mill off about 0.5mm magnetic plate thickness 👽
your on the rite path
Take your drives to a junk yard, put the drives in the auto shredder. NSA has something like that.
toaster, water, and microwave, and dropping can all easily be recovered by someone determined enough, what you want to do is shatter the platter into dust and then dispose if said dust if you really want that data gone forever
Literally this guy cook the hard drive in the microwave 💀
You should erase an HDD platter and get it magnetized. Services will magnetize stuff and i want to see what the files look like