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Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by JadeNB on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:04PM (#40877230)
I'm sorry to be an idiot—I can't tell if I'm looking at multiple views of one thing, or one view each of multiple things, or what. Is this just demonstrating that hard drives are commonly enclosed in oversized enclosures, so that it's easy to position the punch in a way that totally misses the actual electronics?
Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by jsheard on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:10PM (#40877274)
Those aren't hard drives, they're solid state drives in the SATA form factor which was originally designed for hard drives. SSDs are much more compact than HDDs, so the components are usually all bunched up at one side near the connectors and the rest is just air, thus punching a hole in them at random probably won't achieve anything. Punching a hole through the PCB might not destroy the data either depending on where exactly you hit it but it would probably at least make it more difficult and expensive to recover.
Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by JadeNB on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:33PM (#40877437)
Thank you for a clear and courteous answer to my silly question. (I am so used to not thinking about spinning hard disks that I didn't even notice that I'd used the term to refer to SSDs.)
Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by rkagerer on Thursday July 04, 2024 @05:44PM (#40878312)
It wasn't a dumb question, pictures could have been clearer.