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Bleeding Edge Byte 025: Melting Hard Drives With Thermite
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Breakin' Stuff, Short Bytes, Features, Mods / Hacks, Science, Storage, Videocasts
We know many people who are wary of discarding their old hard drives, especially after the drives have died without offering the option to reformat. We know people who have opened them up and scratched up the platters manually, and others who just have a drawer full a bunch of drives. At Gear Live’s Seattle Mind Camp, Pablos of the Shmoo Group asked everyone to bring their old hard drives so that we could give them a proper burial. The result? An 8,000-degree hard drive meltdown, thanks to a little thermite.
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Wow this is crazy.. Kids remember not to try this at home
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1/24/12 3:13 pm
This is actually quite mind-blowing.You guys had a good idea of a ‘funeral’:mixing old hard-drives with thermite. Heheh. 
Hanah
1/24/12 3:25 pm
Amazing! I love the idea of a ‘funeral’ for hard drives.Especially when mixed with thermite.
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