Send this to JerryRigEverything asap.

AI to read the serial from the picture? That's some marketing speak if I've ever heard one. Not much AI is really involved in such a solution, just a bit of image processing and some logic to figure out which is the serial number. That's not AI.

Why is someone still using a crusher in modern times? Shredders and degaussers have been standard for the past couple of decades. NIST 800-88r1 explicitly calls for shredding, disintegrating, pulverizing, or incinerating of hard disk drives, and the same for SSDs. Crushing, cutting, bending, burning, or hole punching are not generally sufficient for securely destroying highly sensitive information.

Why not use a metal shredder 😂

I feel like a system such as this could definitely be automated

I haven't yet watched, but place I worked we had a shreder. It was fun. We had a device that would do that to drives, but it didn't meet our requirements for spinning media. That device had an insert that perforated SSD and that was great! The ssd perferator has videos on YT pd-5 w/SSD-1.

SEM Model 0315 was the shredder, and SEM EMP1000-HS was the 20000 gaus/2.0 tesla degauser.

The degauser claims it is portable, but when we needed to ship it back after 7 years(14000 drives) for a thermal fault it took 3 of us to get its 160lb chassis down to the loading dock to be shipped.

I really wanted to pipe a camera and some light into the shredder it waa so satisfying watching it work.

my prefered method for hdd: open it up, fuck shit up

meh. been doing this for years.

I believe writing just zeroes is ineffective with modern drives. Say you write a stream of 10,000 zeroes to the drive, the drive actually doesn't physically write 10,000 individual zeroes in a row, it writes a marker that says "from this point be zeroes, ten thousand of them", which takes say 2 bytes to write, the rest of the physical space that would be overwritten with the remaining zeroes is left as it was (your old files). You read this data back character by character and sure the drive controller gives you back 10,000 zeroes but it's just read the marker not what is physically on the platter or flash cells.
I believe you need to stream random data to the drive to force it to actually write to the physical medium. In linux use the dd command with flags if=/dev/urandom and of=/dev/sdN with the output dev being the drive or partition you want to overwrite. I'll not put a complete example command in a YT comment as someone would copy / paste it to their command line and trash something they don't want to :/

A video where Linus *INTENTIONALLY* breaks stuff. Nice change of pace.

There are good programs to write io's or even load a jpeg image and write that image over and over again until the hard drive is full. I have programs that do the function automatically. To the point that when the Computer Police come, they won't find anything! Take my word and try it out. I know what I'm talking about…

A little disappointed they didn't test one of the hard drives after the degausser. Just because you heard a thud and it said it did something would have still been cool to see a before we can see this picture of Linus' lunch but now it's gone…

I used to work in a Goodwill computer works department and because we had to reuse drives for our builds we had to make sure they were all properly wiped. So we actually had a set up using large KVM switches and old motherboards on shelves to run 3 pass DBAN on multiple drives in parallel so we could have enough drives for production. We usually wiped drives between 250GB and 2TB with the occasional 4TB or higher but even then those still took awhile to wipe just on the 3 pass. I can imagine not wanting to 3 dozen passes on server level drives those wipes might take weeks.

@LinusTechTips and what happened to the ol' good drill…? 🤣

I enabled BitLocker on my Plex drive… Took over a month to complete 😅

For personal devices or servers it's best to encrypt the drives from the start. If you're concerned about data leaking if you resell the drives, you should also be thinking about theft and warranty returns. If the drives are encrypted, it's no worries, and you don't have to destroy useful hardware.

I recently had an SSD fail on me and the OEM required the original drive to be returned. Suddenly I couldn't connect to the SSD to erase it. If it hadn't been encrypted I might've taken a loss rather than risk the potential data leak.

Who died and was being stuffed in a bodybag under the whiteboard?

It hurts to watch this 😩

Andddd as a cyber sec person there are many ways to erase data but I love select all options aheheheh

So that's a degausser with a weak press and a funky software?

Why not buy a degausser and a 100 tons hydrolic press at that point?

Hell buy a forge or bring all your shit to one lol

Wouldn’t all this data ideally be encrypted to begin with? Are these standards still necessary despite that?

On the question about erasing tons of drives with Secure Erase and Overwrite – You can use a product such as the Destroyinator, which is basically a 45Drives Chassis loaded up with Linux and a copy of Killdisk Industrial to perform bulk erasure AND compliance reporting of disks. It's pretty cool. You hot swap the drive into one of the drive bays on the 45Drives chassis, it'll automatically destroy the data, and if a disk fails for any reason, you'll get a report saved and can send it off to get Degaussed and/or physically destroyed.

It's painfull to watch hardware being destroyed T_T