Plextor Rolls out CD/DVD destroyer!

SUBMAN1 · 08-04-06, 01:55 PM

I think I want one of these. 6 minutes isn't bad either. To make your hard drive safe take a (according to the DoD - to make it safe from an electron microscope) 7 times overwrite with random bit patterns and takes a lot longer to do.

So if you bank on your computer and you don't want theives at your data (I've had my identity stolen twice alread in my life so having things like this is practically mandatory), this looks like a good thing to add to my collection fo shredders and data eliminators.

-S

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news...312288%3B.html

Plexeraser, Mess-up with your DVD and CD　 Plextor will soon ship a new kind of DVD/CD combo, the PLEXERASER, which has ONLY one function, to destroy the data stocked on the DVD/CD... Plextor state that you will only need 6 minutes to completely erase ALL data on a DVD or a CD... which is somehow quite long if your local Police decided to knock at the door.

Yahoshua · 08-04-06, 02:11 PM

I have a better one, cheaper, and already available in every household:

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/st..._in_microwave/

Cool little show, I wonder how many you could do at one time?

scandium · 08-04-06, 02:45 PM

I can think of several cheaper, faster, low tech methods.

SUBMAN1 · 08-04-06, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by scandium

I can think of several cheaper, faster, low tech methods.

My current method involves breaking it, but this further complicates the idea by pitting the surface - its near foolproof where a broken CD can still be read by a tech savvy person with motivation.

Yahoshua · 08-04-06, 02:51 PM

But the microwave!! What about the microwave??

SUBMAN1 · 08-04-06, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Yahoshua

But the microwave!! What about the microwave??

Its all fun and games till someone looses and eye! - Says this as microwave blows up due to feedback....

Yahoshua · 08-04-06, 04:19 PM

I have a simple solution for that: Duct Tape!!

TteFAboB · 08-05-06, 03:08 AM

Screw microwave, I grill my unwanted discs.

STEED · 08-05-06, 08:28 AM

Burn them send them up in smoke works for me.

em2nought · 08-06-06, 09:05 AM

The idea somehow gives me a bad feeling, uber copy protection with the right software. Don't let the guys at Starforce see this thread. And if I bought one, I'd get it at Walmart. wink

SUBMAN1 · 08-06-06, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by em2nought

The idea somehow gives me a bad feeling, uber copy protection with the right software. Don't let the guys at Starforce see this thread. And if I bought one, I'd get it at Walmart. wink

Walmart???!!!

tycho102 · 08-06-06, 02:32 PM

I prefer the microwave. But, realistically speaking, this thing does a 100% job, whereas the microwave does about a 60% job.

If you truely had some super code-word secret information on a disk, it's still possible to pull information off it after a microwave. The microwave will render it unreadable in anything but a disk mastering drive, and even then it will just be a jumble of bits, without any kind of structure or hints. If you were an accountant with really high-dollar customers, yeah. I'd use this over a microwave, even over a shredder.

Interesting, but a niche market.

08-04-06, 01:55 PM	#1
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Plextor Rolls out CD/DVD destroyer! I think I want one of these. 6 minutes isn't bad either. To make your hard drive safe take a (according to the DoD - to make it safe from an electron microscope) 7 times overwrite with random bit patterns and takes a lot longer to do. So if you bank on your computer and you don't want theives at your data (I've had my identity stolen twice alread in my life so having things like this is practically mandatory), this looks like a good thing to add to my collection fo shredders and data eliminators. -S http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news...312288%3B.html Plexeraser, Mess-up with your DVD and CD　 Plextor will soon ship a new kind of DVD/CD combo, the PLEXERASER, which has ONLY one function, to destroy the data stocked on the DVD/CD... Plextor state that you will only need 6 minutes to completely erase ALL data on a DVD or a CD... which is somehow quite long if your local Police decided to knock at the door. __________________

08-04-06, 02:11 PM	#2
Yahoshua The Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,493 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I have a better one, cheaper, and already available in every household: http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/st..._in_microwave/ Cool little show, I wonder how many you could do at one time? __________________ Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua Last edited by Yahoshua; 08-04-06 at 02:14 PM.

08-04-06, 02:45 PM	#3
scandium Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,098 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I can think of several cheaper, faster, low tech methods. __________________ What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? -- George Orwell

08-04-06, 02:51 PM	#5
Yahoshua The Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,493 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	But the microwave!! What about the microwave?? __________________ Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua

08-04-06, 04:19 PM	#7
Yahoshua The Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,493 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I have a simple solution for that: Duct Tape!! __________________ Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua

08-05-06, 03:08 AM	#8
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Screw microwave, I grill my unwanted discs. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

08-05-06, 08:28 AM	#9
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Burn them send them up in smoke works for me. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

08-06-06, 09:05 AM	#10
em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The idea somehow gives me a bad feeling, uber copy protection with the right software. Don't let the guys at Starforce see this thread. And if I bought one, I'd get it at Walmart. wink __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage!

08-06-06, 02:32 PM	#12
tycho102 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,100 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I prefer the microwave. But, realistically speaking, this thing does a 100% job, whereas the microwave does about a 60% job. If you truely had some super code-word secret information on a disk, it's still possible to pull information off it after a microwave. The microwave will render it unreadable in anything but a disk mastering drive, and even then it will just be a jumble of bits, without any kind of structure or hints. If you were an accountant with really high-dollar customers, yeah. I'd use this over a microwave, even over a shredder. Interesting, but a niche market. __________________ My little Silent Hunter 4 repository