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

[Steve Litt]

dd is measured in wipes. hh is measured in joules :-)

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:11, Hank Lambert wrote:
> 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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