Adventures in Formatting

March 26, 2009 by Ellen

With help from Marc, Dan and Lee, I learned a really bad - albeit effective - way to format a hard drive yesterday:

It turns out that:

• It’s a lot easier than you’d expect to snap hard disks.
• They break into many, many little pieces that fly everywhere.
• And the pieces are extremely sharp.

If you’re wondering whether we take our data security seriously, yes, we do. That’s my personal blood on the disc pieces and the desk.

I don’t recommend trying this.