Plextor Rolls out CD/DVD destroyer!

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.

08-06-06, 02:32 PM	#10
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