Can a hard drive be totally destroyed?

[Blunt]

Yes, of course it can you stupid BBC muppet:ranting2:

But I watched it anyway because I was interested to see how information can be retrieved from broken hd's...they didn't even attempt to explain how that can be done

"The lesson learned is to be a lot more careful next time"

that'll be the next time you decide to take a hammer to a hard drive then?:frusty:

The Beeb is so bad at doing techy programmes recently. "Click" is just plain rubbish IMO.




Sorry, rant over

[Luminance]

lol, what a stupid test.

they should have done it with 4 different drives:
1 falling down
1 in the pond
1 run over by a car
and 1 smashed with a hammer

then you would have had a real test, this test is deffinitly poorly done by him!

[Bk]

Good to know. Next time I throw my harddrive out of the window, it lands in a pond, I get it out and dry it with my hammer and then drive over it, I'll be sure to be more carefull.:thumb:
The whole clip would only have been usefull if it had turned out that it still worked after all that. The way it went out was basically just what was to be expected.

[suicidal_monkey]

hahaha, "here it is in three pieces" ... the top of the icybox cover, the bottom of the icybox cover ...


:roflmao::roflmao:

"the lesson learned", he said holding the hard-drive he had deliberately shattered with repeated hammer blows, "to be a lot more careful next time"

:doh::doh:

[suicidal_monkey]

lol, what a stupid test.

they should have done it with 4 different drives:
1 falling down
1 in the pond
1 run over by a car
and 1 smashed with a hammer

then you would have had a real test, this test is deffinitly poorly done by him!

surely that'd have to be 100 fallen two stories, 100 submerged in water, 100 run over by cars, 100 beaten with hammers. Need a balanced sample. 1 out of 1 is not a definitive answer:flirty:


...I do hope they obeyed the WEEE after doing that piece...:eyebrow:

[Jamoe]

"and then I really got aggressive"

:roflmao:

whoo wouldn't want to meet him down darken alley wielding a hammer.

[Bastet]

whut a load of bull.... :sad:

[delanvital]

surely that'd have to be 100 fallen two stories, 100 submerged in water, 100 run over by cars, 100 beaten with hammers. Need a balanced sample. 1 out of 1 is not a definitive answer:flirty:


...I do hope they obeyed the WEEE after doing that piece...:eyebrow:

If I remember correctly for the normal distribution you would need min. 30 units in a sample?

The WEEE? Don't want to say what I can only imagine that as... :wink:

[Snokio]

WEEE = Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment ......... this I should not know

[Luminance]

surely that'd have to be 100 fallen two stories, 100 submerged in water, 100 run over by cars, 100 beaten with hammers. Need a balanced sample. 1 out of 1 is not a definitive answer:flirty:


...I do hope they obeyed the WEEE after doing that piece...:eyebrow:

well i just had a more "brainiac" experiment in mind, like trying to see if you can unglug (or unplug or whatever ) ur toilet in ur camper by using TNT, kind of experiment :dribble:

anyways 100 is a tad bit to much for my taste, 3 should do well nuff, all test we do on school are done in duplo or triplo.(double or triple)