IBM Deathstar Hell

[Charles Steinkuehler]

DCT Jared wrote:
> Plus, in all your sincerity, you missed the fact that 
> vacuuming his deathstar would only clean it unless he 
> used a really high powered vac with a bell jar, which you 
> didn't specify.

Hmm...this is another excellent way to get an RMA number for your drive.

Since HDD's are *NOT* hermetcially sealed, and rely on a cusion of air 
created by the spinning platters to "fly" the heads, if you powered the 
disk up in a vacuum, you should be able to create one mother of a 
head-crash, and leave no external traces as evidence of your "tampering".

If you don't have a bell jar, you could probably use one of those 
food-storage bags, and a hand vacuum pump (like they sell for bleeding 
brakes).

Should be kind of fun to pump out the air while running one of the drive 
stress-tests provided by DFT.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net