It won't burn.
Reason: current HDD plates are made of glass.
BTW: Long time ago I experimented with thermite and it is not such easy
to start reaction. Not to mention the reaction below will not take
place. (Oxygene is present at first, amount of ferrum oxide was
significantly less than amount of Al, etc.).
To summarize the topic, which is how to delete files:
If you don't care about disk device simply destroy it. A hammer or drill
would be enough.
If you want to preserve the device for further use then overwrite whole
addressable space and don't worry about redundant sectors or cells which
are present, but not addressable. Your enemy is neither KGB nor CIA,
rather PFCSK.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 08.11.2024 o 16:38, Mike Schwab pisze:
Not exactly explode. Burn vigorously, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 9:16 AM WILLIAM FAIRCHILD
<00000734ac09691b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
And if the 2 Al has been ground finely enough to turn into nanoparticles, then
adding almost anything to it (along with an open flame) will explode,
especially something like Fe2O3 (which will help it explode with all those
atoms of oxygen).
Bill Fairchild
Columbia, South Carolina
USA
Awareness is the precursor to change.
On 11/06/2024 7:02 AM EST Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
Fe2O3 + 2 Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 18:40:54 -0500, David Spiegel wrote:
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The solutions being discussed were to cut the tapes such that after
cutting 2 thinner circles would result or to cut the tapes such that 2
semicircular pieces would result.
...
Why were no thermal alternative processes considered?
Environmental impact?
It's easy to find images of a disk with a couple bullet holes.
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