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05-02-2011, 08:28 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Hard Drive Destruction
What is a typical price to pay for hard drive destruction?
What is the best method? Total Shred or Punch?
Should the drive be “wiped” first?
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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05-02-2011, 08:34 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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I have typically seen it at the cost to replace the drive + $50-100
Total Shred or Punch both make it beyond repair, however the shred I suppose is may be better as it ends up in more pieces
Yes the drive should be defiantly wiped first, it could get lost/stolen between the server and destruction process.BotWars.io - Code the AI of your Battle Bot!
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05-02-2011, 08:38 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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If you are not worried that the CIA or NSA will be able to recover the data from your drive, just fill it with zeroes. Should be good enough, and is free.
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05-02-2011, 09:20 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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I think thats where the shred is a better option. Just not sure what is a good price...would anyone send it FedEX or UPS to find a best price or just go local despite cost?
More feedback on price would be great. $50-$100 seems crazy high to me...
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05-02-2011, 09:28 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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The charges I were talking about where if you rent a dedicated server and want the hard drive to be destroyed. So it's the cost for them to replace the hard drive, plus $50-100 for actually doing it to the old drive.
$50-100 isn't too bad when you consider the cost of the equipment, postage, power, man hours etc...BotWars.io - Code the AI of your Battle Bot!
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05-02-2011, 10:09 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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I am sure there are companies which can recover the data from an erased hard disk. However i don't know how much that would cost... my guess would be "too expensive to be worth it" - i.e. it would be cheaper/easier to just bribe some of your staff to copy the data before erasing it. Of course i might be very wrong as i have never searched for such data recovery offers and don't know how much it costs
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05-02-2011, 08:15 PM #8Backup Guru
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Intelligence agencies are the only ones that have any sort of chance of reading overwritten data on modern hard drives, and it's questionable if even they can do it.
Zero-filling is a good start. Better would be to use the ATA Secure Erase command, which causes the hard drive firmware to do it for you, including any reallocated sectors, which normal methods of zero-filling would miss.Scott Burns, President
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05-02-2011, 10:35 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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You could put them in the mircowave like I saw on the movie "the town." You can pickup a microwave for ~$100 and you could probably fit at least 25 hard drives in there:
$100/25 drives = $4 per drive.-=SKULLBOX.NET=-
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05-02-2011, 11:03 AM #10Web Hosting Guru
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I can say from experience that a nice circular saw can make any harddrive unreadable.
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05-02-2011, 11:08 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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You could wipe the drive with 0s and then physically destroy it by drilling through the platters or going at them with a hammer.
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05-02-2011, 11:58 AM #12Web Hosting Guru
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hammer-microwave-circular saw
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05-02-2011, 12:44 PM #13WHT Addict
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If the drive is accessible, you can just overwrite all data.
However, it is a problem if you cannot access a defective drive any more and want to destroy the data.
This is an alternative option:
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05-02-2011, 12:46 PM #14Rockin' the beer gut
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You could degauss the disk..
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05-02-2011, 12:53 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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If you still can access your drive, do it the easiest way =)
http://www.jetico.com/tanfwc
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05-02-2011, 01:22 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-02-2011, 12:55 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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dban it then run a few angle grinder through it
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05-02-2011, 02:26 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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Erase with Zeros then /dev/random, knock a few chips of the controller and put a single 1/2in drill hole through it should make it unrecoverable to all but gov types and specialist labs. In reality we just wipe them and hit the controller with a sledge hammer.
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05-02-2011, 08:18 PM #20Hello World
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Heres a good way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GKInPlOsg
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05-03-2011, 08:45 AM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thats too slow. This would be better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPC...feature=relmfu
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05-02-2011, 09:06 PM #22WHT Addict
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We get our dead/eol hdd's degaussed at a local IT Recycling center who can provide documentation etc. Luckly it was my place of work before entering hosting years ago so i get a attractive price to do so.
For us its one less worry about anything biting us in the arse in years to come.
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05-03-2011, 06:59 AM #23Web Hosting Master
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Wonder if they ever tried a disk at willitblend.com
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05-03-2011, 08:51 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-04-2011, 09:25 AM #25Web Hosting Master
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Only slightly unrelated - my brother works for the company that makes the waterjet cutting machines. They have a funny off-shoot of the "Will It Blend" series with their own "Can Water Cut It" series. Check it out here.
http://www.canwatercutit.com/index.html
Pretty neat how precise these machines are.
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