Hard drive shredder

Once the platter has been removed from the drive it just isn't feasible to recover information from it.



You would need to know what brand of hard drive,what model, the date of manufacture, and which firmware edition the platter came from in order to install it into a donor drive. Not to mention .... this all has to be done in a cleanroom. Just a few specs of dust can put so many bad sectors on a platter that it becomes unreadable.

Originally Posted by Scrappah

Once the platter has been removed from the drive it just isn't feasible to recover information from it.

You would need to know what brand of hard drive,what model, the date of manufacture, and which firmware edition the platter came from in order to install it into a donor drive. Not to mention .... this all has to be done in a cleanroom. Just a few specs of dust can put so many bad sectors on a platter that it becomes unreadable.

Scrappah,

That might be true, but when dealing with the types of companies that I'm trying to land for E-waste, it just won't fly. Hospitals and doctors have HIPPA regulations to worry about, financial institutes deal with significant sums of money and other companies deal with confidential government information. All of these companies pay to have hard drives shredded. They won't just let anybody take there hard drives home under the assumption that they will be taken apart and sufficiently destroyed.