Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Lower part of the image is incorrect. All the data would pool in the trough, leaving free space at either end.

Is this drive compression?

I have a feeling that the drive shown in the picture is actually heavily fragmented. Just a feeling though.

Dummy probably just hasn’t run a defrag in awhile.

Read up on capillary action

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I’m assuming this is actually to render an old drive inoperable, in case of sensitive contents?

Just spit balling, but it might be possible to flatten the platters out to recover some of the data, maybe even enough to piece together what was on there. The proper method for destruction is to wipe the drives, then shred them.

The proper method for destruction is to wipe the drives, then shred them.

Yes for spinny drives.

For SSDs, when you delete something TRIM + physics ensures it’s really really gone all the time

Please stop shredding SSDs that can go on to a 2nd life…

Indeed. I was only speaking to HDDs considering OP’s image meme.

Aren’t the discs made from a material that shatters like glass?

In principle yes but I never managed to shatter or break a disc platter… But then I never had a sledgehammer

That I’m not sure, I know the premise is that data is read and written magnetically, which would lead me to believe there is some kind of ferrous metal in there somewhere, but I couldn’t tell you the actual composition of the platters.

It depends.

With tearing apart drives over the years, 3.5" always used aluminum platters, while the 2.5" ones used glass. (With greater data density and higher speeds however, this may have changed)

Correct, and it uses magnets to render the disks unreadable. One of those devices services https://at-rack.co.uk/ LTT using it https://youtu.be/4dR5lbF5-wo

Yes.

Although disks are also legitimately shredded.

It makes the most awful sound.

Trust me, that data is very definitely not destroyed.

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I’m just sitting here wondering how tf they did this…

Did they put it in a bending brake?

They obviously installed it in a laptop and closed the lid before they were finished.

It’s a machine designed to destroy hard drives. They use a hydraulic ram to bend it and shatter the platters.

Which is overkill when you can get the same result by just drilling a hole into the drive.

It depends on how many drives you have to destroy. These things can be pretty quick and do hundreds or thousands of drives without much work.

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