Destroying a hard drive

[Jerry Feldman]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:06:56 -0400
VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:

> Hm.  Hard drives are a member of that oh so FUN class of objects which
> are small enough to fit inside a microwave oven, are they not?
> 
> I wonder how a drive would fare if you opened it up, stuck it in a
> microwave oven, and put it on High for a couple of minutes...

It would survive much better than your microwave oven, or more
specifically the magnetron tube. 



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