[Leaplist] I used hh instead of dd to wipe my disks

[Hank Lambert]

20 minutes for 5 drives? Wow, that's good; how many wipes? Lol.

Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My box of drives got full. Five of the drives were under 3GB. Such a tiny 
> drive does little more than waste an IDE port, the market value of a used 
> 15GB IDE hard drive four years ago was $15.00. Giving to charity would have 
> meant time consuming multiple dd commands.
>
> So I used hh -- heavy hammer -- a 32 oz hammer. I busted them so badly that 
> every platter from every drive was either bent or shattered, all the 
> circuitboards were broken clear through. I definitely voided their warrantys. 
> Then I threw them in the dumpster. It took about 20 minutes to hh all five 
> disks (one of which was 270MB).
>
> SteveT
>
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