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If 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
by tscs37 9y ago
If 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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