Movie trying to heat process used HDD to prevent data recovery

If you throw away used HDDs or broken HDDs as is, the possibility that the data will be restored and confidential information will leak will remain. As a means to prevent such information leakage, there is a method of physically destroying the HDD, but to the extent that itThermit methodThere is a movie that is trying to process the HDD by flowing the molten high temperature metal.

Details are as below.
First of all, in order to cause a thermite reaction, mix aluminum with iron oxide.
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ignition. The used HDD is underneath.


And react violently.


It is flashy like fireworks.



The contents after the reaction is like this.


I am also experimenting at night.


The surroundings were bright like daytime.


The situation at this time is also a photograph, so that details can be understood.

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The fire outburst.


You can see a red shining like hot.


After processing it is like this. With this you should not be able to recover data any more.


It may be an effective means to achieve the purpose of not restoring data, but please do not do it because it is very dangerous.