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I'm sorry to be an idiot—I can't tell if I'm looking at multiple views of one thing, or one view each of multiple things, or what. Is this just demonstrating t

by JadeNB 2y ago

I'm sorry to be an idiot—I can't tell if I'm looking at multiple views of one thing, or one view each of multiple things, or what. Is this just demonstrating that hard drives are commonly enclosed in oversized enclosures, so that it's easy to position the punch in a way that totally misses the actual electronics?

jsheard 2y ago
Those aren't hard drives, they're solid state drives in the SATA form factor which was originally designed for hard drives. SSDs are much more compact than HDDs, so the components are usually all bunched up at one side near the connectors and the rest is just air, thus punching a hole in them at random probably won't achieve anything. Punching a hole through the PCB might not destroy the data either depending on where exactly you hit it but it would at least make it difficult to recover.
- JadeNB 2y ago
  Thank you for a clear and courteous answer to my silly question. (I am so used to not thinking about spinning hard disks that I didn't even notice that I'd used the term to refer to SSDs.)
  - rkagerer 2y ago
    It wasn't a dumb question, pictures could have been clearer.