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A hard drive has orders of magnitude less mass than an engine block. There's going to be nothing left of a drive but a puddle of molten metal after it's had a
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
A hard drive has orders of magnitude less mass than an engine block.
There's going to be nothing left of a drive but a puddle of molten metal after it's had a thermite grenade burn on it.
- tscs37 9y agoIf you check research related to this and the DEFCON talk where somebody actually put thermite into the drive, there won't be a puddle of molten metal. You can put thermite on it once you burned the parts if you want.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoThe DEFCON guy used 15 grams of thermite. An AN-M14 TH3 incendiary grenade contains ~750 grams of thermite (technically thermate). Those are two different things. Entirely.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoHere's what 1 kg of thermite does to a hard drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnqeodIIUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnqeodIIUw I'm comfortable that the Curie temperature has been exceeded for all of those platters. :-)
- tscs37 9y agoGood luck getting that into a datacenter.
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