What really would have been interesting is to see if the data is still present on the platter when you replace the Main PCB of the HDD. They are often interchangeable

@a.belladonna8316

7 ай бұрын

​@@ZoneStudios. or just Unscrew the drive and use sandpaper 😂

@Napert

7 ай бұрын

burn it so hot that it loses all magnetic properties

@a.belladonna8316

7 ай бұрын

@@Napert good idea but smell is problam

@NootNooot

7 ай бұрын

they are not really interchangeable. BUT, recovery companies can configure them to be compatible. it's all about the platters for the data. the data does not go away with microwaving the outside.

@MentorKenner

7 ай бұрын

@@ZoneStudios.Thermite would fully destroy it. Data would still be on those pieces

My mans really microwaved and toasted a Hard drive 💀

@Ristorappaaja420

7 ай бұрын

Bro commented before The video came out💀💀

@TheOneWhoAsked37

7 ай бұрын

​@@Ristorappaaja420What r u on about?

@ImCooler10

7 ай бұрын

Yum

@idkctk

7 ай бұрын

Let's fire up the computer 5 seconds later: NOT LITERALLY

@keanupro7578

7 ай бұрын

frrrr

Drilling through hard drives is how we destroyed drives to federal standards at the recycle/refurb warehouse. It was a shame to see so many rare working MFM drives just destroyed.

@kevinwheeler4061

7 ай бұрын

Nooooooooooo!

@cdos9186

6 ай бұрын

WTF MFM drives......PAIN. No wonder the eBay sellers are asking ridiculous amounts, the market sucks for stuff like that due to that reason, most of them are just permanently destroyed once out of service....

@hiddenguy67

Ай бұрын

what the

@HarmonRAB-hp4nk

28 күн бұрын

really? better cover 100% of disk with holes.. :-) aka melt them, its got platinum in it lol........ kidding,federal standards seem quite low to anonymous.... they cracked the fbi database in aprox, 33 seconds :o who the heck knows what there capable of,,,, good thing there on our side lol

One of the better ways to truely delete the data (apart from shattering the internal platters) is to heat them past their curie temperature, which permanently demagnetizes them.

@Gamer-nc8qp

7 ай бұрын

So im getting put it in thermite.

@Gamer-nc8qp

7 ай бұрын

@@shadewood3083 yeah but the data is written magnetically. So even if the drive survives datas fucked. (The drive wont survive.) What i was suggesting will turn the whole thing into slag.

@johanfrags7707

6 ай бұрын

​@@shadewood3083 When it's in thin-film applications (like the HDD) the curie point decreases dramatically, with some research online I found it is probably less than 200c (473K)

@HarmonRAB-hp4nk

28 күн бұрын

haha another brilliant :-) knowledge is power :-) heat or.... electro magnet? tried ith a 5 pound pulll neodymium magnet, did nothing

That was fantastic content. Make part 2 and get it to recovery company.

@norooerg9087

7 ай бұрын

All of the hard drives will still have the data on it, like he explained at the end. People have recovered data from hard drives in plane crashes and mostly burned up.

@user-om5es2zp7k

3 ай бұрын

No, part 2 should be hard drive waiting for 1 year

Harddrive are actually really resistent to shocks when powered off. However when powered on, theyre super sensitive. Hence why laptop drives often die when people bump the machine

@HarmonRAB-hp4nk

28 күн бұрын

drives were imune to that long ago, there's a bar across the head so it cant hit the platter... funny my father helpedd promote it. droppin a pc on the floor while running,,, the reaction he said was.... gasps.... lol its dead Jim..... but note on it went.... then I recall laptops coming ouut a coulple years later and we got a free IBM thinkpad... weird musta been show of appreciation back then cuz they dont give a crap about ppl now.... why there's programs you cant delete..... before it was total control with DOS the winshit came out.

@pankoza

26 күн бұрын

that's why SSD became common

@KenzieShaneSetiawan

5 күн бұрын

​@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk So uh 1. Hard drives are more immune now 2. Your father promotes it 3. Then you guys get a free Thinkpad (which is rare nowadays that corporations give away free stuff(?)) 4. DOS gave more control (of the hardware(?)) than windows (NT(?))

what about a bulk tape eraser? it's a powerful electromagnet meant to erase magnetic media (casettes, VHS, etc) in a matter of seconds. I believe it's what the pros use.

@valliantsteed

7 ай бұрын

No, businesses usualy just let them be shred. Bulk erazers are from a time where you often would reuse tapes or floppies, they would destroy the mechnicle parts of a HDD anyway, so they just get shredded. If you wanna keep em working, you'd use a save eraze proccess of overwriting the data - at least with mechanical HDDs. Doesn't work well enough with SSDs and if it's soldere to the mainboard, the entire computer gets scrapped.

@defuntogamer377

7 ай бұрын

Rem♥♥♥♥

@LandonEmma

7 ай бұрын

A what?

@JessicaFEREM

7 ай бұрын

@@valliantsteed I meant pros as I'm pros back in the day who wanted to blank out their reels.

@MrPir84free

7 ай бұрын

They do make degaussers for hard drives.. But these degaussers are on an entire another level compared to a bulk tape eraser .. Think the cost is somewhere around $20K and above. Most businesses take the drives to another business to shred the drives; like a big paper shredder. We did this at work; the shredder came with their truck, they videotape the entire process, and provide a certification that the drives are shredded. Did like 650+ drives that day. Still expensive. To be honest, the best approach is software & time; there's software that you can boot and shred the drives by overwriting the drives a number of times using certain patterns. The lazy man's approach would be to configure bitlocker or some other full disk encryption program into action, and encrypt the ENTIRE drive, and be sure to lose the key.

The magnets would work, but only if you used them on the magnetic discs themselves. Because like you did it, they are protected from the metal shell like in a Faraday cage.

@raven4k998

7 ай бұрын

are any harddisks made of aluminum or is that just a myth?🤔

@leonhardscholtyssek

7 ай бұрын

@@raven4k998 I don't think that there are any hard drives made from aluminum, because it isn't magnetic.

@hemant3332

3 ай бұрын

@@raven4k998 yes many of them are made up of aluminum, they will put some magnetic material on top of that, opened one 80 Gb hard disk from 2006 today to see the aluminum platter.

The reason the HDD survived at 1:54 is because it has a seal between the actual mechanics and the outside which makes it waterproof. Maybe the board too? and also the hard drive still worked because they're sealed to prevent dust from corrupting data.

Well if you let it sit on a thousand pounds of C4 and set it off I don't think there is anything left to sent it to the date recovery center.

@phantomcrafter146

7 ай бұрын

Mythbusters be like:

@gamingballsgaming

7 ай бұрын

@@phantomcrafter146 "yeah we couldnt get any c4 so we put a few match boxes underneath and the drive survived, so we can say Myth Busted!"

Looking forward to seeing the data recovery results!

@hoteny

Ай бұрын

Did it happen?

@uss_liberty_incident

Ай бұрын

@@hoteny No clue

@hoteny

Ай бұрын

@@uss_liberty_incident thanks for the reply

@Little_Bird123

3 күн бұрын

me too

No hard drives were harmed in the making of this video

@random_stuff_channel

7 ай бұрын

*Many hard drives were harmed in the making of this video

@Pinguinesindgeil

7 ай бұрын

They were fucking violated.

@HShadz

2 ай бұрын

Real

@EstarH100

2 ай бұрын

No, hard drives were destroyed in the making of this video

I love the fact that you push tech so far just to see if it can hold up. Love the content!

@raven4k998

7 ай бұрын

microwave the hard disk only if you want a flame thrower🤣🤣🤣

I'd love to see part 2! I have a couple of dead HDDs that I've kept, hoping I can afford to recover the data someday. Your video will either give me confidence or make me doubt sending them to a professional data recovery service.

@QualityDoggo

7 ай бұрын

Definitely worth a shot; a lot of small reputable businesses do good work for affordable prices versus the thousands than many big name companies will quote. Most common failure is the heads; headswap may be all it needs.

Try putting the hard drive into a Mri scanner, and see if it survives the extreme magnetic 🧲 fields. Thanks for sharing 😊

Bro really dated a hard drive to destroy it💀

That proposal to the HDD was just fantastic, I couldn't stop laughing until it devolved into a wild coughing XD

9:23 did i actually just get rickrolled by an hdd😂🤣🙄

Man as a PC lover, you destroying those hdds really hit me.

2:20 man said frozen water 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2 methods that will render all data unreadable. 1) sharp blow(s) to the spindle with a hammer. This will shatter the discs inside without making much of a mess. 2) take it to the shooting range. Lead traveling at roughly 1000fps should be enough to compromise the data.

Poor hard drives😢 1 like to mryeester = 1 prayer

@MrReddFlames

7 ай бұрын

yes

One of the ways we destroyed the hard drives at my old workplace because we dealt with sensitive data was my boss would disassemble them and then he'd give the parts to me. And my favorite way to spend the afternoon was drilled pressing the disk platters. And setting the inclosures on fire. I can guarantee you after being drilled, put in saltwater, and set on fire. That data was gone.

Microvawe was actually not effective, because while it did kill the circuitboard, all the data is still on the platter and can be recovered. Same goes for the water and the toaster, the internals might not be damaged. Galium method also wouldn't work for direct platter contact an any drive because every harddrive has a protective and magnetic layer over the platter witch would stop the reaction, alltho oppening the drive by itself will kill it. Dropping it will kill the R/W heads, but the platter is good and data is recoverable. The vinyil one was funny, put it in a CD/DVD for some funny noises (i tested it) Might be fun if you sealed the "breathing" hole and just continiued using it to see how long it lasts.

@leonpano

7 ай бұрын

Answer is For some drive yes For some drive no If controllers have self encrypted Then is controller died then data on disk make no sense anymore Data just garbage

@filenotfound__3871

7 ай бұрын

@@leonpano Yes, but that encryption key is located on the rom chip on the drive, it is highly unlikely that it will die from any of theese

@leonpano

7 ай бұрын

@@filenotfound__3871 more depends And maybe rom and controller is bind together Means you can’t replace other controller And most likely rom is in controller

@filenotfound__3871

7 ай бұрын

@@leonpano Very rare on consumer harddrives

they only way to make 100% sure on one can ever get data from these is to over wright the data 32 plus times then grind the platters into dust

I have a better idea: don't do it unless absolutely necessary. If the hard drive it's not damaged, it's still a free storage to use. Just buy an external enclosure for it and your good to go. If you really need to wipe all the data running a few times something like: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/$DISC should do the job. But if you really need to physically destroy it, use a furnace and melt the platters.

@EtherialEdits

7 ай бұрын

No, most companies destroy drives when it contained sensitive data, it's not enough to run commands to erase data.

@itsmoi5673

7 ай бұрын

What is the /dev/random device file? Can't we use /dev/zero?

@itsmoi5673

7 ай бұрын

@@AlexBarbu that's actually smart, didn't think of it

@jhgvvetyjj6589

7 ай бұрын

The point is that its durability test

There's a gun range next to the BBQ place here. If we have drives which need to go, we take them over to the range and fire off a few rounds at lunch time. Highly effective and very therapeutic.

Thank you, gonna use this in the future

Me: smashes it onto the floor

@Coolbro6558

7 ай бұрын

Basic and quick

@theNikNikovsky

7 ай бұрын

Just use a paper clip

For the freezing one, thats actually a way to make tempremental hard drives OK for a period of time.

@hotsauce2446

7 ай бұрын

I've been considering doing this on an old 2gb HDD that still spins but won't initialize. I was thinking I would seal it in plastic bags with a usb reader attached and the wires sticking out. I just need to clone it so it should work long enough. I came to this idea from using an upside down canned air for diagnosing bad transistors in old radios.

James Bond: Dang it it’s encrypted Criminal: nah I just toasted it

Excellent video. I loved it. Keep it up just like this!

Day 2# of asking to cool a cpu with a penny made before 1982

@slothvole

7 ай бұрын

why would u want to see this???

@Bron-le5ww

7 ай бұрын

@@slothvole bc pennies manufactured before 1982 were 95% copper unlike todays pennies which are only 5%, so in theory it’d be more thermally conductive and do a better job cooling the cpu.

@legendmaster1989

7 ай бұрын

@@Bron-le5wwso what material are used now?

@Bron-le5ww

7 ай бұрын

@@legendmaster1989 they’re mainly zinc with a copper coating(5% copper and 95% zinc). The older pennies used an alloy of 95 % copper and 5% zinc.

@legendmaster1989

7 ай бұрын

@@Bron-le5ww why they switch is it cheaper or something?

Tbh the toaster was probably the most dangerous one, I was surprised he didn’t pop a breaker the moment he pushed it down

I use hard drive platters as drink coasters

My go to has always been opening the drives, scratching the crap out of them and then bending the platters befote cutting them with an angle grinder. You may say overkill, but i say effective. (Also fun fact laptop hard drives sometimes use a brittle material for the platter, I've had one shatter in my hand while just trying to bend it slightly by hand)

Bro is able to go to really long lengths to entertain us. And I respect that

6:00 HDD rejected you lol

Yes send it to a company. I recommend drivesavers, plz do it,love your content

I love the thermal paste essence candle

He finally did it

I would love to see if a recovery company can save the data on the harddrives.

@raven4k998

7 ай бұрын

well you know patients can destroy the data but that takes decades to do believe it or not cause that magnetic coating degrades slowly over time getting weaker this is why old hard dives for old computers like 486's do not work as well as brand new magnetic hard drives cause that coating has degraded to the point that data reading in no longer reliable at all on them

Thermal paste essence, that made my day🤣I love it

I would love to see what recovery companies think of them. I was actually wondering that while watching the video. I liked and subbed just for that

Hey man, I've seen you clean components with alc. But how about testing if they function in alc? (My dumb idea at 3 am)

i mean you could just sand the disks with sandpaper

@jet_mouse9507

7 ай бұрын

You should take it apart, spin it up by plugging it in, and then apply the sandpaper! It would be like a reverse spinning sander thingy!

To avoid any chance of data recovery, one would need to make the platters dissapear. So, after drilling, leave them in acid for months. If no acid, then get on a boat and throw them one by one, across large distances, to the sea. Deepness to hide them, and salt water may help the corrosion.

Genius way to get subscribers, we're already 7:40 in, so we probably subscribe (even tho i might forget)

Man don't you hate it when you accidentally microwave your hard drive 😔

The only true way is to first overwrite the data. However many times you want. Then fully disassemble the hdd, using a torch on the platters and then grinding them up into a powder. You also have to burn the PCB. The rest doesn't matter but I am sure big tech will also destroy the read headers just in case there is some secret hidden memory in there.

@Jesus_Christ_is_Lord_

7 ай бұрын

Or you can just melt down your hardeive in a small forge

@monke248

7 ай бұрын

Cover it in gasoline and melt it into slag

@Gamer-nc8qp

7 ай бұрын

​@@monke248gasoline wont do it but thermite will XD

@johncaze757

7 ай бұрын

​@@Gamer-nc8qpwhat about blend it?

@Gamer-nc8qp

7 ай бұрын

@@johncaze757 it would work. The standard for NATO secret information is to degauss the drive. For top secret degauss and destroy.

5:35 “Try to love it” *GET GIFTS THAT LOVE*

Would like to see a part 2 for this video!

Now I wonder what would happen if you only microwave the disk platter

@Theskyhadaweege

7 ай бұрын

I dont think you could since just touching the platter can brick the entire drive

@DGTelevsionNetwork

7 ай бұрын

Would spark on the outer rim as the microwave wavelengths bounce off of edges, the rest would just be reflected off.

I feel bad for his victims. Because cmon. Even if its HDD its still have 1TB. Why you didn't pickup like 120 or 300GB drives :(

@jperasmus4817

22 күн бұрын

💀

Fantastic content.

+1 for data recovery expert video

I found your channel on a reels and I'd be curious to see if any of them at 8/10 made it if you didn't already do that video? That was a good video brother.

Quick formatting several times in different formats & cluster sizes, then wipe free spaces.

i used to work in a data repair company and we had these contracts with the government to destroy hardrives we shreded the platers in to dust and then ran the dust in a magnetizer demagnetizer.

Bro done preparing us for the worst consequences FBI got nothing on this guy online

OMG CANT WAIT FOR THE FOLLOW UP VID

"a Linus special" I'm dying 😂

New subscriber you have gained me. Yt recommended me. Already like your content cheers mate.😊

I think it was that paper sticker that caught fire 1:37

@LiamFrancisOlarte

Ай бұрын

It could be the board.

I work in a place for hard drive destruction and we use a hydrolic piston with a tip to puncture a hole into the circuit. Only recently it broke so we resorted to sledge hammeing them in... like full on mangle them up

Yes, microwave it. I had an old pair of leather gloves that were too big. So I sprayed them with water, put them in the microwave oven for a few seconds. This shrunk the gloves down to the perfect size. LOL

Just smash it to bits with Sledgehammer, Aint no way in hell data can be recovered after that. Back in the days this is how we used to "hide" accounting in our company at the orders from our boss.

The love poetry is something else ❤

Take your drives to a junk yard, put the drives in the auto shredder. NSA has something like that.

3:30 we pop tart this toaster strudel had me dying

You have a mil subs come on dude is that the best mic you can get

This was very interesting I would like to see what happens to the broken hard drives if you send them to a data recovery professional

On the unplugging one, you should give it a write instruction and unplug the sata cable. It should get stuck sending power to writing if the drives logic isn't the most reliable.

Dude you are so underrated

I crafted wind chimes out of platters and chimes luckily the platters seem to be metallic since they didnt explode if you visit a very specific building you may be able to see that item

The microwave test was done in the most dangerous way possible lmao Just all safety precautions absent like not doing the test outdoors, not having heat resisting gloves, and having nothing to put out a fire nearby on hand too The fire after the sparks might have been a shock and unexpected, but surely if you know that metal sparks in microwave, that fire is a risk in this experiment, but it was was still done indoors with no safety precautions at all Says not to try this at home; proceeds to try it at home

Hammer nuff said..

The reason a car doesn't work is bc the rubber tires distribute the pressure. If a car had metal wheels like a train, you'd see a fair bit more damage probably, but even so the pressure isn't that insane. Speaking of trains tho... (probably shouldn't try it tho, wouldn't wanna be liable for causing a derailment) it'd be interesting to see like how much it takes to crush it with a hydraulic press tho, I'm sure there's some channels who wouldn't mind helping out in finding out the answer to that lol As far as the microwave and water goes, you've definitely fried the supporting hardware, but I wonder if the disk itself is still ok? A professional could probably transplant the disk with new supporting hardware to recover the data if needed I'd imagine, so it'd be interesting to see just how much the disk itself was messed up by the fields in the microwave. Definitely interested in that followup! I'd bet the toaster warped the disk, I think that would be probably one of the most effective ways. The platter going above a certain temp should make it lose the ability to store magnetic charges, and warping it would make it further just unable to be spun, so I think heat is really the way to go. Jabbing some holes in it with a soldering iron would probably be super effective lol The reason regular magnets don't work, is because the harddrive uses magnets a fraction of a millimeter away from the disk, so you either need something really strong or really close. That's why dropping a (older) harddrive can kill it, the disk can bump into that magnetic head while spinning and take out a huge gouge. Modern drives can detect the freefall and will park the head away from the disk and stop the spinning to help avoid damage tho

Most creative KZreadr I know

"Have I mentioned you shouldn't do this at home?" Me who has already done all of these things: "Wait. I wasn't?"

in case anyone is curious, AWS datacenters use machines called degaussers which are machines with very powerful magnets that scramble the data, then they get smashed by a mangleR (yes its called a mangleR) which essentially bends and smashes the disks to pieces :)

These all awesome, but most of it not wreck the data on the platter. The sure way: sand the platter, spin up and give it a good tap, and the platter shatters

When he microwaved it and toasted it, it was like the “dinner is ready!”

ooohhh I cant wait for the next vid of what drives survived.

5:36 Bro's romancing on a hard drive 💀💀💀

I want you to blend it, in some very powerful bender :)

7:08 "a Linus special..." Should've included that one clip where he dropped a server hard drive on the floor

Definitely would like to see these sent off for data recovery.

the stone crusher machine is a sure win...., another one is a 3422°C furnace... the combination of both is the champ

Man olease make the follow up video I would LOVE to see that

Ask a construction worker to drive a bulldozer over your HDD

Data centers like Google and BackBlaze use hydraulic press to crush the old drives. Alternative is drilling three holes into the hard drive which is common for most situations.

The finest destruction CMU has produced since battle bots

We put them in a hydralic press and mash them. The platters bend or splinter and the frame is bent. We use this when we suspect that information of patients has been stored on them.

5:48 bro has some advanced lvl 100 pc rizz

Underrated.

HDD platters are coated in ferrous material and even if they are from aluminum you would need to scratch off the ferrous material. But what about the HDD case? You should try it! Also sugestion - put it into vacuum!

@christopherleubner6633

4 ай бұрын

The shiny stuff is either cobalt samerium or platinum cobalt alloy. The bright silver ones are the PtCo and the more golden ones are the SmCo type.

3:39 I have that same case!

very useful, in fact

Bro had to get rid of his 4tb “school” folder somehow discreetly without just randomly destroying it