Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:52:11 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal? Message-ID: <9625.1728607931@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <4592b3d058a5c2c2c5acf752706ade1e4e1ed7ca.camel@riseup.net>
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In message <4592b3d058a5c2c2c5acf752706ade1e4e1ed7ca.camel@riseup.net>, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote: >On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 15:36 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >in terms of sustainability and children's education, this is my >favourite piece of advice. > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Drn6rgxsm5oA >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DNXD9gDCw7uU I wish that I understood German. >Someone might have the skills to extract data even after the plates have >been shredded and fused into a lump. > >Maybe it is best to sherd the plates, mix the fragments and shoot one >half into the sun with a rocket and the other half onto Venus. Thank you. I will be contacting Elon Musk to see if I can arrange interplanetary passage for my platters. >How paranoid were you when the drive was still in use? Was the computer >hidden deep in a secret vault in a bunker in a mountain? Yes! How did you know? Has someone leaked photographs of my secret mountain lair?? >If you are not too paranoid, consider to dismantle the drive and dispose >a part of it in an environmentally friendly way, while placing the >damaged plates in public waste bins in various places. Thank you. That shall be done also.
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