At what temperature will a hard drive melt so that its data is

9001°K

>>62090938
A healthy amount of lead at decent speed is enough to make hard disk data unrecoverable.

>>62090938
Uh, seagate claims that 60c is max temp there drives can take. so anything past 60c and your shorting the life of the drive, dunno about WD's take on it.

Just get it up to the melting temperature of steel to be safe.

>>62090938
It's generally safer to wipe the hard drive digitally, but if you want to physically destroy it, use a really strong magnet and rub it all around for a solid minute. Heating it won't properly destroy the data, but the drive could fail at around 70°C or hotter, depending on the device.

>>62091051
Cool, I've got some spare jet fuel lying around

>>62090938
Better off just wiping a powerful magnet over it multiple times and then taking a grinder to the surface

>>62091034
But that 's not data integrity temperature, just operating temperature.

It would take a few hundred degrees probably to lose the data on the drive. What's the Curie point of the materials that make up the disk platter?

>>62090938
>for science.
Yeah rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright.

>>62091219
That won't work.

Go to your local blacksmith and pour that shit inside molten metal.

>after that ask him to produce a fag sword with it.

>>62090938
That thing looks delicious

Pretty sure once the platters themselves melt, the data is gone. Thing is, some of them are glass, others metal alloys. It's easier to just drill them full of holes, then shred the remains.

>>62090938
wait a minute what is that thing and should i be afraid

>>62093333
Looks like a tapir with human teeth shopped in the mouth, and maybe a tongue in the nose.

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>>62093348
>tapir

these things looks terrifying

>>62093380
they just look like they will *gently* rape your anal sphincter with their snout when you least expect it

>>62090957
Kevins are not degrees.

Higher than the temperature jet fuel burns at, that's for sure.

>>62093333
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJm6nDnR2SE

>>62090957
>>62091219
>>62093759
>itt cringe-tier forced memes

>>62091219
i hear termite is good too

>>62090938
The Melting Point for the aluminum case: 660.37 °C (933.52 °K, ~1221 °F)

The real question, however, is not when the casing of the drive beings to melt, but rather at what temperature will the curie point of the platters be reached.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_point

The curie point is the point at which all ferrous metals loose their magnetic properties. Depending on the make of the drive and the materials used in it's construction the curie point can be reached LONG before the aluminum case melts.

>>62093333
it's a pig with penis on face

>>62093824
neat

>>62090938
If you had gotten an SSD you could put it in the oven for an hour and all the data would be gone.

>>62093879
Only work well for wooden hard drives...

>>62093755
x Kelvin - 273 = x C°

is it that hard, amerifag?

>>62093755
>>62094836
He clearly meant that degrees Kelvin is not a thing. Who's the retard now?

>>62095104
This

>>62094695
wtc was made out of wood? no wonder it fell

>>62095104
i though he was joking about kevin

One precision shot with a .50 round should do

Hard Drives are finished and bankrupt

>>62091090
You do realize, of course, that heat destroys magnetism, correct?

Obviously the proper /g/ way of data destruction is lasers. Masers are an acceptable substitute.