Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal?

Reply: Ralf Mardorf : "Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal?"
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From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:46:15 UTC

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 17:13 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > Steel that is hot enough to "fuse into a lump" will need to be
> > significantly hotter than that -- nearly at the melting point.  All of
> > the magnetic information will have been wiped.
> > Other ferromagnets useable for magnetic recording are going to behave
> > similarly.
>
> you only need a morphogenetic field resonator to read data from a
> demagnetised lump, see
> https://static.spektrum.de/fm/912/f2000x857/245808923_pa.jpg ;).

I have something like this somewhere in my basement.. we only need to
make it pocket size now and battery powered plus the USB interface so
it works on FreeBSD :D :D :D

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info