Thread 938091361

How can I destroy a 12TB hard drive in the next 30 minutes so the data is completely unrecoverable?

Asking for a friend

>>938091361 (OP)
If you have come to this point you're probably already fucked

>>938091410
Listen, I gotta do what I can. Is there any way, hypothetically, to obliterate that fucker like right now?

>>938091361 (OP)
>How can I destroy a 12TB hard drive in the next 30 minutes so the data is completely unrecoverable?
Thoroughly smash it with a sledehammer. Then burn the fragments. Then mix them in with concrete and dump that into the Mariana's trench.

But since you're in a hurry I guess you can only do the first step or maybe that and the 2nd in the amount of time you have. That's probably good enough tbh.

Dump it here, show us.

>>938091577
They wont be able to get anything out of it like that?

>>938091361 (OP)
Literally just break it you idiot. And then you can burn it to be safe but you wouldn't even need to do that.

>>938091655
don't rob a bank with this guy...

>>938091541
Why do you need to destroy them in the first place? Gotta get rid of a big CP stash before the feds get there?

joshy

>>938091361 (OP)
Put it in the microwave

joshy joshy

>>938091361 (OP)
Pee on it

fuck it until it breaks

False alarm everyone, I talked my way out of it. It was just a wellness check, we're good

>>938091361 (OP)
1. Go back in time
2. Get a SSD (more secure erased files, more easily broken)
3. Install Pop_OS! instead of windows and encrypt the entire drive with a secure password
4. Live a cleaner life
5. Don't work for the FBI
6. Claim you're allergic to gluten but eat it anyway

>>938092603
:'c get a SSD idiot

>>938091361 (OP)
Tell it that it will never amount to anything except usable space for pedophiles to hide their trash on. The reality that its just a tool for perverts, an empty vessel used purely for perverse masturbation, will cause the hard drive to struggle to go on with life and will an hero.

>>938092671
No, I will not. I got 3 HDDs that serve me well

>>938092671
he makes bait all day everyday for attention basically logfag

>>938091361 (OP)
Why don’t you have an ssd

>>938093171
SSDs are for chumps

>>938092024
This.
you never watched any haxxer movie, OP?

>>938093396
Why

Why did you all of a sudden have to get rid of 12 TB of content. Mmmmhhhhhh...

>>938093518
I don't want to destroy my microwave.

>>938093831
Because they suck. They are inferior.

>>938093878
I don't, it was for my friend and it was a false alarm

>>938094141
How do you have a "false alarm" about stored data? Its either a problem or not.

>>938094490
I don't, my friend did. It was just a wellness check, false alarm

Next time this happens and you're moments away from getting caught just unscrew the HDD and destroy the HDD platter with a hammer. It's made of glass so it'll break quite easily. The FBI couldn't get anything out of Adam Lanza's drive and all he did was scratch it with a screwdriver. They will 100% ask why you destroyed the HDD, just ask for a lawyer and plead the fifth.

It's either this or get gangraped by mexicans in jail

>>938094549
Again, how can there be a false alarm about this situation?

>>938094490
What he means is, it wasnt the cops he heard, it was the ice cream truck, so everything is ok

>>938094624
Because it was just a wellness check

>>938094141
>Can't even figure out how to destroy a hard drive
>Think SSDs are inferior, because reasons
Mad how someone can be so tech illiterate and retarded but still have such confident opinion

>>938094613
I should add it will only break apart if it's a 2.5 inch HDD. 3.5 inch HDD platters are a lot harder and thicker so I couldn't hammer my WD Blue 500GB one while my 160 GB Hitachi came apart like butter so you may have to get creative. Try both scratching with a screwdriver and beating the fuck out of it with a hammer, that should work.

I don't know about the microwave technique, never tried it. Sound fun though.

>>938091361 (OP)
Just smash it? Are you that infantile that you cant destroy something? Christ. Retards these days.

>>938094709
Give me one reason why an SSD is better

>>938094792
actually deletes the data when you delete a file

>>938094792
It's smaller, much faster, and in your case, much easier to destroy. It also doesn't fuck up just by putting a magnet too close to it

>>938094899
>>938094915
You can't give me another reason though

>>938094939
you can stick them up your ass further

What's on these HD's that needs to be hidden, OP?

>>938094989
That's not a good thing HDDs are stikl better

>>938094989
Yeah that is true. Try it, OP

>>938095125
*still

>>938095051
I dunno, my friend didn't tell me

>>938091361 (OP)
Do you idiots not know drills exist?

>>938091361 (OP)
Kek this nigger has a hard drive full of log faggot shit

>>938091361 (OP)
FBI OPEN UP!

>>938091361 (OP)
fire

>>938091361 (OP)
Hide it in your prison-pocket

>>938091361 (OP)
remove all the screws so you can open it up and get the platter stack out, then sand the individual platters with whatever tools you might have. if you can't sand them, microwaving each platter individually should destroy them pretty thoroughly.
just the act of taking the stack apart will mess up the alignment to the point where it's only worth the recovery effort for nuclear secrets or whatever

>>938095452
Take a peak, and report back?

Tell your hdd you love him. Then ghost it.

>>938091361 (OP)
I hope this is obsessor, cause if so you’re fucked and going to jail

>>938096622
It was a false alarm. We're good chat.

>>938096381
No

>>938096709
Hopefully it spooks you into calming down and not being such a fuckin fuckstain shit head. Knock it off obsessor

>>938091361 (OP)
>in the next 30 minutes
overwriting is out of the question. that takes longer.
if you'd stored your data encrypted, you'd only have to erase some metadata.
learn that lesson for the next time.
for now, get the right tools, open the HDD up, and take some sand paper to the platters. that'll take a few minutes at most and the result is nothing but dust. if you want to be devious, you could reassemble the HDD and watch their faces when they try to power it up. it should make an excellent grinding sound.

>>938091577
>Thoroughly smash it with a sledehammer.
big hammer, big enough to not just dent the case but also bend the platters.

>>938091655
>Literally just break it you idiot.
HDDs are all metal. nobody's gonna break that. bend it, maybe. but that's not actually erasing anything, just making it extremely high effort to recover.
just sand the platters. low effort, highly effective.

>>938091361 (OP)
Microwave for 5 to 10 seconds

>>938092024
that too is bullshit. the metal case of the HDD will catch all the microwave energy. it'll heat up a little. inside, nothing's going to be affected.

>>938091361 (OP)
josh what did you do

>>938097033
It wasn't me with the drive, it was my friend

>>938094728
Blowtorch the platters, it works

>>938094899
SSDs are better than a traditional lazy delete but worse at verifiable secure wipe. a hard drive you can overwrite the sectors you care about a few times, with an SSD you send a trim command and it'll do it on its own timeframe.
it's less of an issue now bitlocker/etc are the default but 10 years ago ssds weren't recommended for secure facilities for this reason

>>938097190
Sure Jan, sure, just a matter of time before it all catches up to you and you know it

>>938094899
SSDs employ wear leveling. good luck predicting where anything you write is going to end up. that includes *overwriting* what's there already.
the only proper solution is encryption.
then they'll have to beat the decryption key out of you.
if you use the right kind of encryption, the key to the data is in a metadata section, and your key opens that metadata section, and the key in the metadata section opens the actual data.
then you'd only have to erase that metadata section.
again, SSD caveats apply.

>>938097033
>it spooks you into calming down
read that again and tell me you still believe that statement isn't contradictory

>>938097409
It’s coming for you obsessor and you know it

>>938097187
>>938097356
I dont know who Jan or Josh are, but I didn't do anything. It was my friend, and it was a false alarm. It's fine

>>938097766
You are josh don't lie

>>938097816
Ok?

>>938097862
Hey josh

>>938091361 (OP)
>How can I destroy a 12TB hard drive in the next 30 minutes

Xbox Series X

>>938097886
Hi I guess

>>938098344
What are you up to josh?

>>938091361 (OP)
Flush it down the toilet.

How to make sure files are 100% erased from HDD?

>>938097177
Putting metal inside a microwave is also a great way to just ruin the microwave.

>>938097367
A SSD is much easier to destroy. You can open it up and snap the chips and circuit board to pieces with a pair of pliers. Only takes like 2 minutes.

>>938098699
If you have time, bleach bit, or a similar program. It writes over the entire drive over and over as many times as you tell it to.

There are ways to recover data from a freshly overwritten HDD. Apparently they can tell what the data used to be due to residual magnetic fields from the old data that was just deleted. Overwriting it numerous times solves this.

It takes hours to do though. Not something you can do when the cops are knocking on your door.

If you want total destruction go buy/rent an acetylene blow torch. It can melt steel. You can melt the hard drive discs into a puddle of metal. Would only take minutes.

>>938098647
Or slidd it.

>>938092878
proof?

Gloopin

Josh what would you do if you woke up tomorrow and had 7 million dollars in your bank?

>>938102774
But i don't have 7 million dollars

>>938103016
What if

>>938103634
But i don't

>>938091361 (OP)
Shove it up your ass as far as it will go, the digestive process will completely destroy all data.

Why are people calling me Josh is what I want to know

>>938104699
Because you replied to “Josh”

>>938104699
Because you're josh

>>938097107
>bend the platters
The fuck do you retards ITT think platters are made out of?
They're weak as fuck and thin as fuck.
You could do fucking surgery with the shards shattered off them.
They're metal coated glass ceramics, kicking the damn drive while it is on would make it shatter itself in to a million pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sm5tNllvw

>>938104758
I replied to a post replying to my post that called me Josh. I don't even really want to destroy the hard drive anymore tbh.

>>938104899
I'm not I don't know who that is

>>938105517
We are all joshes.

>>938105595
What does that mean?

>>938105517
I was specifically talking to Josh and you replied. You’re Josh

>>938105683
You will figure it out eventually josh.

>>938105722
>t. Josh

>>938105722
Ok?

>>938105730
I hope so

>>938106110
SO ANSWER >>938102774

>>938091361 (OP)
What did you do OP..... you still here?

>>938106197
I dunno, I'd probably spend it on weed and rent a jacuzzi to smoke it in.

>>938106298
My friend just wanted to know, it was a false alarm

a 12TB magnet

>>938091361 (OP)
acid

>>938106812
They come in 12TB?

For anyone in this thread in a similar situation in the future, here are the best options, in order of speed and effectiveness.

1. Use an SSD you fucking faggot. They break easy.
2. Unscrew the HDD and physically damage the insides.
3. Same as 2 but use fire to melt the pieces.
4. If you have time, overwrite it with software. If you have time still after that, do the previous steps as well.
5. Double encryption, you can also do the previous steps as well if you have time.

>>938108290
That's good advice

Angle grinder and flap wheel discs

Cant recover data from dust

I don't understand how you morons never figure this out

>>938091361 (OP)
Hit it with a pick axe and throw it in the air and let it land on concrete

>>938091541
Move all the problematic content to c:\users\Administrator\Network Shortcuts. When the cops ask: what's that speeches34-45.mkv in Windows Explorer, just say: I don't know it's on the network not on my machine. Does your warrant cover the network itself.

>>938105595
No, I am Bob

cut cut cut

>destroy
wasted resources, encrypt haphazardly.
run the head independent of the platter with a pattern like cutting a shitty pizza; do a line rotate by some crappy number do another line. save the pattern and the rotation so you can decrypt it.
>pineapple pizza
ransomware encryption tools should have most of the stuff you need, but the groups generally keep some bullshit so they get a piece during decryption fucking middle men.

>>938110881
aint no pineapple when self inflicted, emo bitch.

>>938091361 (OP)
1/2 in drill bit for an HDD. Drill in multiple places.
Either a hammer or hooking to a wall socket for a SDD. You can probably do that for an HDD as well but....

>>938110405
Hi Bob

>>938112959
sup

>9hr long logfag thread
it stinks

Bob found an elementary school girls picture hot

>>938113167
proofs or hearsay nigger

>>938113062
Damn Shane is that all you can say now?

I can't believe josh got arrested for illicit traffick

anon is now in jail

>>938113167
>implying
>logfag now posting in pedo thread
oh the irony

Huh??

>>938091361 (OP)
Do you have a drill?

Shot mine with a sks.

I hate the fact that living in a turd world country means; converting from my currency back to usd, the price of a 12TB hard drive is around 400USD and that's if YOU'RE LUCKY. Not to mention the market is flooded with fake drives or second-hand drives with their SMART tampered with so you can't gauge it's health properly, I've seen 12TB drives go as much as 450USD.

>>938120144
based canuck, chkd

>>938091361 (OP)
Microwave

>>938121417
This post is 12 hours old, anon...

>>938108290
yeah this is the exact correct answer. the digital contents are easily recoverable must of the time, but the physical disks are easy to get to and damage with a screwdriver

>>938094613
I have an old HDD with like 60 bitcoins on it that failed a few years ago. Any way I can re-activate the drive? When I plug it in my PC is just stuck on the initial mobo splash screen.

>>938091361 (OP)
thermite, but spoilage of evidence is also a crime

>>938091361 (OP)
Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds.

>>938110405
Kill yourself pedo groomer freak, don't ever reply to me.

member when shane posted his child nephew

>>938112898
Drilled holes will stop your average hacker, but not the feds. The actual files are tiny on the drive. You still leave over 90% of the data intact. They have ways of taking the discs out and reading them directly not relying on the drive's own mechanism.

What

>>938091361 (OP)
isn't there a linux thing that converts all the bits to zeroes and then randomizes? get a usb, install linux, look up how to do that. once you install linux and open up a terminal i think it's like two lines you have to write

>>938128562
Just looked it up. It'd take 18+ hours to do this at an average speed of 180mb/s

>>938091361 (OP)
OP let us know where you're at now

Take it to the local computer fix it shop! They’ll help you!