Thoughts on smashed hard-drive viability?
oh, they can piece it together... and with forensics build a solid case against trump on collusion with russia.
oh sorry... no. nothing can be gained from the hard drive, they were wiped with a cloth or something.
When I smash mine, the pieces are less than 1" x 1".
Depends on the smasher, and the smashing.
What they say here is true. The disks can be installed into another drive unit and read, And if they happen to be solid state drives it is even easier. That is if it is not highly encrypted of course. Encryption would make it much more difficult to piece together even if the disks can be read.
They probably would have been much better off to have kept a good degausser handy. lol
“Thoughts on smashed hard-drive viability?”
They don’t work after that. We use an hydraulic press at work. It crunches them good.
I said nearly the same thing, but last week. I’ll say it again. It all depends on the condition of the dataplatters inside teh case. If you’ve ever seen the inside of a traditional hard disk drive, it looks like an old school record player, but the records aren’t vinyl, they’re metallic, and they are stacked, and there are multiple arms to read each one. If someone smashed a disk case with a hammer, most of the data could be intact, but a lot of work would have to be done to straighten and and recondition the surfaces and read them, and it would be inevitable that a fraction of the data would be lost, along creases and cracks, at the very least. But heuristics and rebuild the structure of the data placement. It wont necessarily fill in the blanks, but it will allow the allocation tables of the viable areas to be read.
When people have brought their old hard drives to me to be disposed of, I put the claw of the hammer through the drive multiple times.
I've seen remarkable work done on such recovery efforts in days past; skilled techs can work miracles with this sort of thing. I can only hope that agencies with the 'full power and credit of the U.S. Federal government' can pull a rabbit out of a hat with this treasure-trove.
Absolutely. Some data will have been powdered, but anything, even small bits of drive are recoverable. With the data densities today, even a small 1mm sized piece can provide kilobytes of data.