Comments on: Adventures in Formatting http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/ Behind the Scenes at Ilium Software Fri, 24 May 2013 09:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: selling a business http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34382 selling a business Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:47:08 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34382 Ouch. I didn’t know that hd platters were made of glass, should I ever get the impulse to destroy a hard disk I will beware…

]]> By: taco http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34337 taco Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:53:09 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34337 Good bye Ilium. After using your software for years I am leaving because I’m tired of waiting for the ewallet for mac software to come out. I’m buying a competitors version today.

]]> By: Chris http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34323 Chris Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:37:45 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34323 Funny picture but it looks a little fake given all the screws are in the picture!

]]> By: Joe McConnell http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34291 Joe McConnell Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:26:51 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34291 A tech whose opinion I trust says that the safe way to render a hard drive unreadable (which is, I assume, what you were trying to do) is to donate an old drill bit you don’t care about any more to the effort, and pop a hole right through case and all with an electric drill — or preferably a drill press. I’ll be giving that a try soon with a couple of old drives.

]]> By: Alex http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34289 Alex Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:25:04 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34289 Video or it didn’t happen. ;) Seriously I hope you’re OK Marc!

]]> By: Marc http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34261 Marc Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:12:53 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34261 As the guy who thought the drive was metal and gave it a bend, I’ll agree that this goes onto the list of “bad ideas.” Seriously, the thing exploded like a frag grenade. I got a sliver in one of my fingers and there were little knife shaped fragments EVERYWHERE in my office.

Now I won’t say that it wasn’t cool :) . That would be a lie. I mean it EXPLODED – how cool is that? But I wouldn’t do it again without some protective gear (goggles and gloves mainly.)

]]> By: Dave Beauvais http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2009/03/26/adventures-in-formatting/comment-page-1/#comment-34253 Dave Beauvais Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:30:38 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=1063#comment-34253 As you discovered, many drive platters are actually made of glass rather than metal. Glass is lighter weight than metal and easier to polish to a virtually perfectly smooth surface. I’m glad nobody was seriously injured! At my last job, we had a user who dropped her laptop down a set of concrete stairs, shattering the platters inside the drive into what sounded like thousands of tiny glass shards. On the up side, she had a nice maraca to play at the talent show.

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