The Most EFFECTIVE Ways To Destroy A Harddrive
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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
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
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
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
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(?))
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
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.
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.
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
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!"
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.
Looking forward to seeing the data recovery results!
Did it happen?
@@hoteny No clue
@@uss_liberty_incident thanks for the reply
me too
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.
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🤣🤣🤣
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 :(
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Try putting the hard drive into a Mri scanner, and see if it survives the extreme magnetic 🧲 fields. Thanks for sharing 😊
Bro really dated a hard drive to destroy it💀
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
2:20 man said frozen water 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man as a PC lover, you destroying those hdds really hit me.
9:23 did i actually just get rickrolled by an hdd😂🤣🙄
Poor hard drives😢
1 like to mryeester = 1 prayer
yes
I use hard drive platters as drink coasters
Thank you, gonna use this in the future
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.
Bro is able to go to really long lengths to entertain us.
And I respect that
Excellent video. I loved it. Keep it up just like this!
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.
That proposal to the HDD was just fantastic, I couldn't stop laughing until it devolved into a wild coughing XD
Tbh the toaster was probably the most dangerous one, I was surprised he didn’t pop a breaker the moment he pushed it down
Thermal paste essence, that made my day🤣I love it
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.
Me: smashes it onto the floor
Basic and quick
Just use a paper clip
He finally did it
I love the thermal paste essence candle
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)
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
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)
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.
+1 for data recovery expert video
6:00 HDD rejected you lol
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.
James Bond: Dang it it’s encrypted
Criminal: nah I just toasted it
5:35 “Try to love it” *GET GIFTS THAT LOVE*
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 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
Yes send it to a company. I recommend drivesavers, plz do it,love your content
"a Linus special" I'm dying 😂
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!
Man don't you hate it when you accidentally microwave your hard drive 😔
OMG CANT WAIT FOR THE FOLLOW UP VID
Would like to see a part 2 for this video!
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?
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.
Hammer nuff said..
I crafted wind chimes out of platters and chimes
luckily the platters seem to be metallic since they didnt explode
if you visit a very specific building you may be able to see that item
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
@@monke248gasoline 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.
very useful, in fact
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.
The love poetry is something else ❤
Quick formatting several times in different formats & cluster sizes, then wipe free spaces.
I would love to see what recovery companies think of them. I was actually wondering that while watching the video. I liked and subbed just for that
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
Most creative UA-camr I know
3:30 we pop tart this toaster strudel had me dying
They make a good coaster
ooohhh I cant wait for the next vid of what drives survived.
I found your channel on a reels and I'd be curious to see if any of them at 8/10 made it if you didn't already do that video? That was a good video brother.
Genius way to get subscribers, we're already 7:40 in, so we probably subscribe (even tho i might forget)
Dude you are so underrated
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
Fantastic content.
Bro done preparing us for the worst consequences
FBI got nothing on this guy online
The finest destruction CMU has produced since battle bots
7:08 "a Linus special..." Should've included that one clip where he dropped a server hard drive on the floor
When he microwaved it and toasted it, it was like the “dinner is ready!”
Man olease make the follow up video I would LOVE to see that
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.
1:27 Yeah my PC runs cyberpunk 2077. 💀
New subscriber you have gained me. Yt recommended me. Already like your content cheers mate.😊
thermal pasting it would work wonders.
That disc on the turntable looks like the 45s we had as kids!
The fact that this guy did it indoors too
Take your drives to a junk yard, put the drives in the auto shredder. NSA has something like that.
I wonder if you change out the the board after microwaving it, if you can still read it.
You have a mil subs come on dude is that the best mic you can get
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
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
I want you to blend it, in some very powerful bender :)
I think it was that paper sticker that caught fire 1:37
It could be the board.
5:48 bro has some advanced lvl 100 pc rizz
I would love to see the pro’s trying to recover the data.
Underrated.
I've hammered a nail through them a few times - works really well on glass platters which just shatter into myriads of fragments. Harder platters also end up bent, distorted and out balance with missing data at the holes so are going to be pretty safe from anyone less capable than a national spy agency.
Related question though - how do you destroy a SSD? I did wonder if an hour or two in a 200 Celsius oven would work (but concerned about the plastic fumes). Any ideas would be welcomed.
Definitely would like to see these sent off for data recovery.
Opening it up.
the stone crusher machine is a sure win....,
another one is a 3422°C furnace...
the combination of both is the champ
bro got that hard drive rizz 💀
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.
5:36 Bro's romancing on a hard drive 💀💀💀