ya, but it would be a balls.
if ya want to be really paranoid you could burn the drive afterwards.
that should prevent any form of recovery, if its completely burnt
On 7/8/05, Joe Fitzsimons <joseph.fitzsimons at nuim.ie> wrote:
> I wouldn't have thought so, since its mostly just a line down the centre of
> the disk that gets damages. You would expect the other parts to retain there
> magnetization, so, at least in principal, data could be recovered off the
> remains of the disk.
>> Joe
>> On Friday 08 July 2005 15:51, Niall O Broin wrote:
>> > A member of this list gets his company's old drives cut in two with an
> > angle grinder. I'd say that's a pretty reliable means of destroying
> > data.
> >
> >
> > Niall
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