What's wrong with cutting the disc in half with scissors? Takes a lot less time than 6 minutes.
Barrett
· 3 years ago
I have always enjoyed putting them in the microwave. The disk is unreadable ... and you get a show!
Drfatal
· 3 years ago
Seems like Plextor is loosing their edge and coming up moronic product.. Pretty soon may start seeing lame MP3 players as if the world doesn't have enough of those. I hope not, cause I've always repected plextor for their quality products.
Burt Reynolds
· 3 years ago
It depends on how irrecoverable you want the destroyed data to be. Theres also too much false rumour about how to destroy the data properly.
The data isnt stored in the silver layer so making sure that has rubbed off isnt going to ensure the data cant be recovered. The silver layer can be replaced.
The carbonate layer must be destroyed to prevent data recovery. A cut up disk will damage some of the data. If the original can be reconstructed enough to determine what it was, that may be enough. If the data is movies or photos, enough may be reconstructed to see what they are or to retrieve parts of an image that are useful.
It depends what your own needs are. The Plextor drive may be very useful to some people as you are pretty much assured the data cannot be recovered. It does this without hurting the environment too.
Anonymous
· 3 years ago
I prefer the microwave option. Not only does it thoroughly destroy the disc, it also provides a beautiful arc show!
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Theres also too much false rumour about how to destroy the data properly.
The data isnt stored in the silver layer so making sure that has rubbed off isnt going to ensure the data cant be recovered. The silver layer can be replaced.
The carbonate layer must be destroyed to prevent data recovery.
A cut up disk will damage some of the data. If the original can be reconstructed enough to determine what it was, that may be enough.
If the data is movies or photos, enough may be reconstructed to see what they are or to retrieve parts of an image that are useful.
It depends what your own needs are.
The Plextor drive may be very useful to some people as you are pretty much assured the data cannot be recovered.
It does this without hurting the environment too.