Hard Disk Failure

[Jeff Kinz]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:56:38PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/26/06, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> >>   Hard drive platters aren't "rusty" at all; they typically have a
> >> mirror finish.  Perhaps that was a reference to the magnetic coatings
> >
> > Yes it was , hence the "quotes" "around" "the" "rust"
> 
>   Well, if you knew what the right term was, why didn't you use it?  :-)


'Cause when I explain how a hard drive stores magnetic fields to people
not in the field its just easier to say "rust", ;-)
rather than "ferromagnetic material"

Its a finely engineered material but at the end of the day, it does have
a ferrous metal in it.  Maybe even already oxidized for stabilization.

> > C'mon Ben, Do you really think the NSA is going to tell us if they shred
> > their drives?  Then they wouldn't be able to smoke out parties trying
> > recover int. from the used hard drives sold by the gov't anymore... :-)
> 
>   I gather you're being facetious, but: You seem to be operating under

Not even.  just having fun, hence the unquoted smilies..  Don't take it 
seriously.

"Being paranoid, Its not just a job, Its a hell of a lot of fun! " 
(The obnoxious intelligence officer that dropped in on M*A*S*H)

> ....
> don't get a decoder ring or a secret handshake when you work with the NSA
> ........
>   I suppose it's possible there's some super-secret level of
> classification that's so secret "they" don't even tell "us" about it,
> but hey, maybe I know about that too and just aren't telling "you"
> about it.  ;-)

Can't be. You didn't get the decoder ring or the secret handshake.  ;-)


Don't you even want to know about the secretary who lost her job for
moving her phone?     :-(


-- 
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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