Took a box of around 20 hard drives (dated from around 1992 to last year) to MCR&PC this morning to give them a final farewell. Wanted to make the data difficult to retrieve so I can just toss the drives out.

 

Put one 308 shot through the platters of each. The other guy at the range was worried that they might leave a big mess (I told him I'd clean up any shards, etc), but there was no mess at all. Nice clean hole through the platters and PC board. This was a lot of fun!

 

Box of hard drives:

 

 

13GB drive from 2000:

 

 

PC boards suffered little damage:

 

 

425MB (megabyte!) drive from 1993:

 

 

3GB drive from 1996:

 

Now use a t8 and take the magnets out. Super strong fridge magnets!

 

Looks like fun. I have bin with drives in it just like that one.

Them's some old drives! '93?! Caviar 2420...... 425mb drive right?

Trying to get rid of the porno?

Them's some old drives! '93?! Caviar 2420...... 425mb drive right?

Please, I still have some 40Mb MFM drives. Yes I'm a pack rat.

The box o' drives started around 1992. I think I hammered them before then, or maybe I just didn't have any data I gave a crap about before then.

 

I hated MFM drives. Writing software for them was tricky.

nice holes, now you need to experiment with some black powder.

Please, I still have some 40Mb MFM drives. Yes I'm a pack rat.

 

Aww heck, I still have my old Toshiba with an 8088 processor and no HD, just dual Floppy.

MFM drives stunk, RLL drives were worse as the controller support wasn't as good.