I’m assuming this is actually to render an old drive inoperable, in case of sensitive contents?
Correct, and it uses magnets to render the disks unreadable. One of those devices services https://at-rack.co.uk/ LTT using it https://youtu.be/4dR5lbF5-wo
Just spit balling, but it might be possible to flatten the platters out to recover some of the data, maybe even enough to piece together what was on there. The proper method for destruction is to wipe the drives, then shred them.
That I’m not sure, I know the premise is that data is read and written magnetically, which would lead me to believe there is some kind of ferrous metal in there somewhere, but I couldn’t tell you the actual composition of the platters.
The proper method for destruction is to wipe the drives, then shred them.
Yes for spinny drives.
For SSDs, when you delete something TRIM + physics ensures it’s really really gone all the time
Please stop shredding SSDs that can go on to a 2nd life…
Trust me, that data is very definitely not destroyed.
(See this talk for some entertaining data disposal techniques :)
