Some useless information about a hard drive

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Regular Colibri .22 ammo bounces off. Super Colibri leaves a dent. Standard velocity .22 goes right through. High velocity .22 rips it up pretty good.

And it was a beautiful day here, 60 degrees and sunny, and when I was done I had a beer while cooking a steak outside. God bless America.
 
I've always wanted to stick it to a hard drive. I think i've got a few layin around here.... hmmm..
 
I had one stop a hard cast .45acp handload 200gr SWC (900fps). It hit the magnets. 9mm JHP went through but it just hit the platter area.
 
I got a damn cell phone I would love to shoot. Maybe try it at 400 yds. And a steak would be nice.
 
I've been told the FBI uses a modified wood chipper to "santize" their hard drives. I prefer lead poisoning them.
 
From my experiments I have found 147 gr. Federal 9mm expands completly and consistantly half way through a hard drive with little risk of penetration. On the other hand 115 gr. WWB slices through like a hot knife through butter.
 
Sounds like a good way to avoid personal information falling into the wrong hands.
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only where the hole is. Any area that's not completely destroyed, can be read. it might take some work, but you'd be AMAZED what can be recovered from drives that seem all but lost.
Not to mention, if the heads are intact, it's game over- somebody can get something off of it.
 
green country shooter, what length barrel were you using? Reason I ask is not all of us own a .22 rifle yet, and only have a .22 pistol.

Also, what type of casing did the hard drive have? First one I ever took apart had cast aluminum casing, while the last one had sheet metal for it's exterior.
 
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Winchester 130gr fmj .38 special stopped by the plates, .308 (or possibly 8mm that day) goes straight through.

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In my experiences .243 pokes right threw, while .45 is sorta "stopped" but it tears a created-shaped whole in the entire hard drive and knocks it back several feet.
 
I had completely disassembled it, so all it was was the shiny disc itself. I have shot one up before that was more "encased" but I didn't like leaving little metal and plastic bits all over my pasture. It took a little more firepower to get through the plastic case.

Firearms: Ruger Mark II, 6" barrel
Beretta Neos, 6" barrel
Ruger 10-22, not sure but I think it's 16 inches.

Several Coca-Cola cans also died to satisfy my plinking urges.
 
only where the hole is. Any area that's not completely destroyed, can be read. it might take some work, but you'd be AMAZED what can be recovered from drives that seem all but lost.
Not to mention, if the heads are intact, it's game over- somebody can get something off of it.
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Normally I will decommission a drive by drilling straight through it in a few places, directly through the casing and circuit board and out the other side. Then I'll remove the platters and take a butane torch to them until they're steaming hot. Unless it's the NSA, there's nothing coming back from that drive. Takes about 15 minutes to dispose of a drive this way, but it's worth it for peace of mind.

If I had a range that let me shoot things like that, I'd have some real fun with them. I'd like to see what a steel core 7.62x54R round would do.
 
I prefer to use shaped charges.

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At least I think that's what they called it. We had to either wipe or destroy old hard drives while working for the Air Force. As it happened, we worked next door to EOD. :)

We stuck 10 drives in an ammo can, stacked neatly, and EOD worked up something that involved a metal pipe containing a small charge, a remote detonator, and water. Demolished four of the drives, outwardly damaged all but two, none were working. Shooting them just wasn't as much fun after that.

I think I overheard one of them mention the charge was the equivalent of a .50BMG round, but I can't be sure. I didn't see it close up.

I miss the EOD guys.

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This is what an AR does when mad. Yes it's theoretically possible to pull info off them but unless the drive has a lot of sensitive info on it I doubt someone is going to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have someone recover THR cookies and pictures of cool looking AR rifles, or even your credit card number if they could find it.


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P.S. for those wondering, that thing on the right is the "platter" which holds the data and is found inside the hard drive, between a pair of strong magenets hooked to a motor (it's like a glorified CD). That's what you want to make sure gets destroyed if you are going to dispose of your hard drive and are worried about someone getting personal or corporate data off it, which I don't think is that big of a problem these days.
 
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