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Breaking Bad - Harddrive Erase
July 16, 2012 at
11:28 AM
This completely wouldn't work.
You need to smear the bits around by moving the hard-drive "across/back n forth" the magnetic field.
Simply flinging it one way wouldn't do jack shit.
There's also no way you'd have enough power from 40 car batteries to cover that distance.
Those magnetic cranes only work because they lower the magnet until it touches the car directly.
Complete silliness
You need to smear the bits around by moving the hard-drive "across/back n forth" the magnetic field.
Simply flinging it one way wouldn't do jack shit.
There's also no way you'd have enough power from 40 car batteries to cover that distance.
Those magnetic cranes only work because they lower the magnet until it touches the car directly.
Complete silliness
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Eitherway, it would NOT break the shaft, and even if it did break the shaft, that wouldn't erase the data.
The couplings and washers in the drive are also often alu
Eitherway, it would NOT break the shaft, and even if it did break the shaft, that wouldn't erase the data.
The couplings and washers in the drive are also often alu
You need to smear the bits around by moving the hard-drive "across/back n forth" the magnetic field.
Simply flinging it one way wouldn't do jack shit.
There's also no way you'd have enough power from 40 car batteries to cover that distance.
Those magnetic cranes only work because they lower the magnet until it touches the car directly.
Complete silliness
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If the laptop slams against the wall hard enough, it could shatter the platters in the hard drive. So, it could have worked that way.
Everything around the harddrive (the laptop) cushions the drive itself. Plastic in a high speed collision is actually VERY good elastic dampening to reduce the impulse against the drive itself.
EVEN if the drive was shattered, they can still scan the magnetic data OFF the disk.
The disk doesn't have to be working whatsoever.
The only way to get rid of data is smearing the bits.
If the laptop slams against the wall hard enough, it could shatter the platters in the hard drive. So, it could have worked that way.
Given that this is a high profile drug case, they WOULD go through the trouble of doing that.
Everything around the harddrive (the laptop) cushions the drive itself. Plastic in a high speed collision is actually VERY good elastic dampening to reduce the impulse against the drive itself.
EVEN if the drive was shattered, they can still scan the magnetic data OFF the disk.
The disk doesn't have to be working whatsoever.
The only way to get rid of data is smearing the bits.
And going back again, data corruption isn't very difficult when introducing a hard drive to a magnetic field of that size. Add in the possible physical damage (a slipped platter), and what they can retrieve becomes almost impossible. Please do not misinterpret smashed laptop to meaning smashed HDD or that I was meaning the absolute side of things in hard drive destruction.