Destroy hard drive: 3 ways to total destruction

If you want to dispose of your hard drive, you can completely destroy the device and the data on it. We'll show you how it's done.

Destroy hard drive humanly and harmlessly

If you want to be on the safe side, you can erase your hard drive before it is destroyed. We will show you in another article how to format your hard drive. You can then destroy your hard drive in this way:

1. Turn off your computer completely, remove the power cable and remove the hard drive.
2. Once you have found and removed the hard drive, remove all screws to open the hard drive.
3. Your data is on the round disc. This area must be destroyed.
4. The read and write head is attached to the top right with a very strong magnet. Remove the magnet and set it aside.
5. At your request, the time has now come when you can let off all your pent-up aggressions. With a hammer and goggles, the hard drive can be destroyed with a few blows (with a lot of pent-up anger also with many).

Destroy hard drive senselessly: men love fire

Do it yourself with a hammer can be fun, but there's nothing like a little fire. Once the hard drive is on fire, your data is quickly lost.

• Over a small campfire or in a bath full of spirit, you can really see the pictures from your last company outing, which the NSA has been looking for a long time, burning. However, be careful and listen to your mother's words: No fire in the house.
• If you still have good contacts with your old chemistry teacher, you can give the hard drive the rest with a little thermite. At temperatures of over 1500 degrees, the hard drive is difficult to see after treatment.

Destroy hard drive: It's not fun without sparks

If you want to do something good for the environment, combustion may not be the best idea. Fortunately, there are other ways to totally destroy your hard drive.

• A Flex belongs in every German household, you also know the know-it-alls in the hardware store as angle grinders. You don't have one yet? Well, then quickly! To destroy the hard drive, you only need two things: a full-body protective suit and the neighbor, whom you never liked before and who carries out the judgment for you.
• Even if a beautiful sparkling fireworks awaits you, the layperson should rather not resort to the flex. There are so many things in this world that are just easier to do with 10 fingers.
• Tip: If you want the youngest member of the family to enjoy this senseless violence, you don't have to let him do the job with the Flex right away. Children from 10 to 14 also like to play with screwdrivers and drills on the hard disk.

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