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[Chopped]

dude thats pretty sweet.... almost makes you want to get one just for target practice lol

[iargue]

Most retarded idea ever.

If you have sensitive data on a hard drive. You want to be able to erase that shit in a hurry. More then once my coworkers have told me stories of throwing hard drives out a window to prevent people from accessing it.

[Turtleboy]

Most retarded idea ever.

If you have sensitive data on a hard drive. You want to be able to erase that shit in a hurry. More then once my coworkers have told me stories of throwing hard drives out a window to prevent people from accessing it.

What the hell? Are you a spy?
I guess even if you were, you couldn't tell me huh? Jk

I think this is super useful. Unlike Iargue, I usually don't have super sensitive data on my hard drive. I keep my collection of Scrubs/HIMYM/Lost/Heoroes/Bones/Chuck/Big Bang Theory along with tons of movie. Most importantly, I keep a lot of schoolwork on it along with some projects that I like to work on. At my desktop at home, my parents often stream shows from a site i bookmarked for them. However, they're not super good with computers and pretty much every time I come for break - it's acting up When this happens, I can reformat the computer but also keep my files which are stored on my hard drive.

I've already broken two hard drives, I dropped one when I was moving it from the sofa to the coffee table and I just kept one in my schoolbag. I'm not super careful with my stuff and I sometimes swing my schoolbag around and apparently I did some physical damage to it That sucks cause they cost about 150-200 to replace, and that's not including the outrageous price they would charge to get my data back.

[Fresca]

Most retarded idea ever.

If you have sensitive data on a hard drive. You want to be able to erase that shit in a hurry. More then once my coworkers have told me stories of throwing hard drives out a window to prevent people from accessing it.

I mean, the easy solution is: if you have sensitive data you might need to destroy quickly, don't buy one of these indestructible hard drives?

For average people who want an extra layer of physical protection for their 68 gig porn collection, this is great!

[Faintingcow]

Prices start at $150 for what? 2 gigabyte? 2 terabyte?

[iargue]

I mean, the easy solution is: if you have sensitive data you might need to destroy quickly, don't buy one of these indestructible hard drives?

For average people who want an extra layer of physical protection for their 68 gig porn collection, this is great!

So you pay 200 dollars to protect a 10 dollar hard drive? Makes sense. XD. Just buy two hard drives and mirror the data. Your porn is safe.

Prices start at $150 for what? 2 gigabyte? 2 terabyte?

Its a case? It goes around the hard drive to protect it?

[ArticTheTiger]

Most retarded idea ever.

If you have sensitive data on a hard drive. You want to be able to erase that shit in a hurry. More then once my coworkers have told me stories of throwing hard drives out a window to prevent people from accessing it.

THIS.

If this becomes a standard (not likely methinks) I will stock up on diamond drill bits.

[ToxicS]

This will be good, when you go out you can wear one of these blocking your heart, mini body armor Of course you'll be needing to wear a jacket.

[Waser Lave]

I think I'd rather buy a regular hard drive for a lot less money and just avoid throwing it out the window/drowning it/shooting it with a shotgun.

[iargue]

I think I'd rather buy a regular hard drive for a lot less money and just avoid throwing it out the window/drowning it/shooting it with a shotgun.

Yeah, but if you want to use your laptop in the bath/shower. Its the risk you have to take.


I see military only uses for this.

[Waser Lave]

Yeah, but if you want to use your laptop in the bath/shower. Its the risk you have to take.

I don't want to use my laptop in the bath/shower. I've never wanted to use my laptop in the bath/shower.

[Noitidart]

SHOT WITH A SHOTGUN!?! HAHAHA

But I honestly don't need that kind of recoverability. My keyboard doesn't even move from it's spot really. The mouse moves the most, and the farthest that sucker moved was 12 inches along my mouse pad.

I see military only uses for this.

Yes for that I could understand.

[Hydrogen]

I disagree.
If you wanna kill a hard drive better to just have some strong magnets or a shitty microwave and just nuke them.

These won't become standard, they will be an option (and relatively cheap) for business and home users who live in areas prone to severe storms and flash flooding. You won't have to worry about losing all your family snaps that were backed up on your hard drive that was flooded.

Even if the drive sits in water for more then 3 days I'm going to bet that the data will still be fine. The biggest issue is going to be oxidization, where an alloy is only partially submerged (moreso in salt environments) the alloy is prone to corrosion. This does take more than 3 days to set in but once the process has started you can't really stop it... So it'd be a case of buy a new hard drive, transfer the data and nuke the old one.

For those who need to kill their hard drives, id like to know what they have on them to repeatedly need to destroy hard drives. If they are "hacking", then they need to wisen up on what they're doing theres no reason for a hacker to have to destroy their hard drives too many times... Unless you're doing it wrong...

You got to it before I could. The magnet will only work on the platter type drives. For solid state, you can just zero out or randomize the data over a few passes. Just as effective and can be just as quick too.

[iargue]

As if magnets destroyed data properly. Magnetized disks can be recovered by 200,000 dollar machinery.

[sircomflix]

It's actually pretty amazing the lengths you can go through attempting to destroy a hard drive to prevent access, but somehow, they always find a way.

It honestly feels like some horrible CSI TV level stuff that isn't horribly fake.

[Hydrogen]

Do your best to cause many head crashes.

[DanDoesWork]

pfff I would just break the Drive into 7 pieces and place it in the 7 continents to make it unrecoverable (: or somewhat...but so who leaves a hd in salt water?

[jcrdude]

pfff I would just break the Drive into 7 pieces and place it in the 7 continents to make it unrecoverable (: or somewhat...but so who leaves a hd in salt water?

The navigation and communication unit on a ship?

The black box in an airplane that crashes into the ocean?

There are reasons for implementation, but most likely they are not applicable to the majority of us

[DanDoesWork]

The navigation and communication unit on a ship?

The black box in an airplane that crashes into the ocean?

There are reasons for implementation, but most likely they are not applicable to the majority of us

I might just slightly overlooked those options -_-, Yep those are definitely not applicable towards me, but if i remember correctly there is pilot on codex (:

[Hydrogen]

The navigation and communication unit on a ship?

The black box in an airplane that crashes into the ocean?

There are reasons for implementation, but most likely they are not applicable to the majority of us

You'll be given a third degree cavity search, medieval style, by the TSA in the process.

[jcrdude]

You'll be given a third degree cavity search, medieval style, by the TSA in the process.

Wait... are cavity search "degrees" measured by the number of knuckles?

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[Sweeney]

Wait... are cavity search "degrees" measured by the number of knuckles?

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No, fingers.

[Dolly]

i think this idea is bad for sensitive data for sure, BUT!

It would be great for external HDDs and laptops:)

they get dropped or thrown around and the disk can get cracked or out of allignment soooo easily

Edit: on the basic end of things lol

Edited by DeathinShoes, 24 January 2011 - 07:09 PM.

[Seaner]

shot with a 12 gauge shotgun

I was hoping they were going to use something other than #7 birdshot. ):

Edited by Seaner, 25 January 2011 - 02:15 AM.

[Abradix]

No, fingers.

N-n-noooooo!!!

Oh god, that makes it so much worse.