Thread: Getting rid of a hard drive
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Old 02-17-2009, 08:36 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Pie View Post
Drop them from a very tall building? Most platters won't stand more than a few g's.
Disk drives in the days of IBM PC-AT were rated at 6 g's. Todays disk drives are rated in the vicinity of 40 g's.
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