How to destroy SSD that has no screws in its case

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philb2

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In another thread, https://hardforum.com/threads/reviving-ssd-with-only-16-health-per-hd-sentinel-pro.2021969/, I asked if this SSD can somehow be revived and reused. If not, then I need to physically destroy it so someone with better skills than I have can revive the drive and read off all the private data that is on this drive. The drive is a Crucial MX 300. https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-525GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B01IAGSD5O There are no screws in the drive case, which you can see in the Amazon product photos.

I seriously doubt the drive is still in warranty, which is five years.
 
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  • Turn it into Swiss cheese with a drill
  • Roll over it with a tank
  • put it through a metal shredder
  • cleave it with the beam of a particle accelerator
  • Put it in a working blacksmith’s forge
  • Insert it into a rubber chicken, add gunpowder and a fuse, light it and run
  • Run mains grade/ high dc voltage and amperage electricity through the data and power lines
  • Use thermite to melt it into slag
  • Throw it into an active volcano
  • use a UV lazer to cut the imprint of a dragon through it
  • cut it into bits with a high pressure water/abrasive jet
  • shoot it from a 17th century cannon
  • glue it to a brick and throw it into the ocean
  • put it in a hydraulic press and crush it
  • cut it into strips with an angle grinder
  • Blow a big hole into it with a shotgun
  • break it into tiny pieces with a sledgehammer
  • Attach it to a rocket destined for the sun
  • drop it in a vat of 1 mol sulfuric acid
  • Get some gas, a terracotta pot and gunpowder.Put it in the pot, with the other ingredients, get a cork that will fit the pot and insert a fuse. Dig a deep hole. Put the pot in the hole, cover the whole thing with quick set concrete except for the fuse, light the fuse and run*
  • melt it with an oxy acetylene torch
  • Soak it in resin and then turn it with a lathe into a chess piece

All of the above should work, I would recommend the first

Note some of these methods are extremely dangerous, do not attempt them unless you know what you’re doing
 
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If you're done trying to wipe it electronically, that cover should come off fine if you pry it, and you don't need to put it back together anyway. Wear work gloves so you don't mess up your fingers when the prytool slips. Then you can smash the flash chip with a hammer or whatever.
 
Keljian said:
  • Turn it into Swiss cheese with a drill
  • Roll over it with a tank
  • put it through a metal shredder
  • cleave it with the beam of a particle accelerator
  • Put it in a working blacksmith’s forge
  • Insert it into a rubber chicken, add gunpowder and a fuse, light it and run
  • Run mains grade/ high dc voltage and amperage electricity through the data and power lines
  • Use thermite to melt it into slag
  • Throw it into an active volcano
  • use a UV lazer to cut the imprint of a dragon through it
  • cut it into bits with a high pressure water/abrasive jet
  • shoot it from a 17th century cannon
  • glue it to a brick and throw it into the ocean
  • put it in a hydraulic press and crush it
  • cut it into strips with an angle grinder
  • Blow a big hole into it with a shotgun
  • break it into tiny pieces with a sledgehammer
  • Attach it to a rocket destined for the sun
  • drop it in a vat of 1 mol sulfuric acid
  • Get some gas, a terracotta pot and gunpowder.Put it in the pot, with the other ingredients, get a cork that will fit the pot and insert a fuse. Dig a deep hole. Put the pot in the hole, cover the whole thing with quick set concrete except for the fuse, light the fuse and run*
  • melt it with an oxy acetylene torch
  • Soak it in resin and then turn it with a lathe into a chess piece

All of the above should work, I would recommend the first

Note some of these methods are extremely dangerous, do not attempt them unless you know what you’re doing
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You forgot "get job with Department of Energy and bring home tactical nuke"
 
OK. If I can't get Crucial's tool to revive this drive, then I'll pry off the cover and then use the hammer to smash the chips. Then recycle what's left. :ROFLMAO:
 
philb2 said:
OK. If I can't get Crucial's tool to revive this drive, then I'll pry off the cover and then use the hammer to smash the chips. Then recycle what's left. :ROFLMAO:
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Or after taking the cover off perform an autopsy on that badboy to see how they put them together ;)
Then beat the crap out of it hehe.
 
You can always put it in the microwave. Either way it's fixed.
 
Keljian said:
  • Turn it into Swiss cheese with a drill
  • Roll over it with a tank
  • put it through a metal shredder
  • cleave it with the beam of a particle accelerator
  • Put it in a working blacksmith’s forge
  • Insert it into a rubber chicken, add gunpowder and a fuse, light it and run
  • Run mains grade/ high dc voltage and amperage electricity through the data and power lines
  • Use thermite to melt it into slag
  • Throw it into an active volcano
  • use a UV lazer to cut the imprint of a dragon through it
  • cut it into bits with a high pressure water/abrasive jet
  • shoot it from a 17th century cannon
  • glue it to a brick and throw it into the ocean
  • put it in a hydraulic press and crush it
  • cut it into strips with an angle grinder
  • Blow a big hole into it with a shotgun
  • break it into tiny pieces with a sledgehammer
  • Attach it to a rocket destined for the sun
  • drop it in a vat of 1 mol sulfuric acid
  • Get some gas, a terracotta pot and gunpowder.Put it in the pot, with the other ingredients, get a cork that will fit the pot and insert a fuse. Dig a deep hole. Put the pot in the hole, cover the whole thing with quick set concrete except for the fuse, light the fuse and run*
  • melt it with an oxy acetylene torch
  • Soak it in resin and then turn it with a lathe into a chess piece

All of the above should work, I would recommend the first

Note some of these methods are extremely dangerous, do not attempt them unless you know what you’re doing
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What, no option of turning it into swiss cheese with 5.56mm holes? lol
 
philb2 said:
In another thread, https://hardforum.com/threads/reviving-ssd-with-only-16-health-per-hd-sentinel-pro.2021969/, I asked if this SSD can somehow be revived and reused. If not, then I need to physically destroy it so someone with better skills than I have can revive the drive and read off all the private data that is on this drive. The drive is a Crucial MX 300. https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-525GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B01IAGSD5O There are no screws in the drive case, which you can see in the Amazon product photos.

I seriously doubt the drive is still in warranty, which is five years.
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Just smash it up with a hammer. Or axe. Not a difficult problem.
 
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just label it and stick it in a drawer,
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On another note, I was looking through my drawer and in the back I found a Samsung 1TB EVO that I forgot I had.
It got pushed all the way towards the back of the drawer.
 
I'm actually sitting here today going thru a (2) 300Gb, (2) 500Gb and (2) 1Tb and (1) 2Tb drives, plucking old data onto an 8Tb external backup and wiping the old drives. Which had been sitting around just as labeled above.
I was shopping a 4- or 5-drive toaster, looked at drive spanning, but right now you can buy an 8Tb drive for $120. And my old tower PC already has a toaster dock on top of it. So the big drive is a better solution. I pared my tower down the just sata-3 drives, trying to keep bus speeds up. 512Gb SSD boot, a 7200 4Tb, another 3Tb, and my first first boot SSD (256) used as a target for ripping our DVDs. Speeds that up a bit.
 
rayra said:
I'm actually sitting here today going thru a (2) 300Gb, (2) 500Gb and (2) 1Tb and (1) 2Tb drives, plucking old data onto an 8Tb external backup and wiping the old drives. Which had been sitting around just as labeled above.
I was shopping a 4- or 5-drive toaster, looked at drive spanning, but right now you can buy an 8Tb drive for $120. And my old tower PC already has a toaster dock on top of it. So the big drive is a better solution. I pared my tower down the just sata-3 drives, trying to keep bus speeds up. 512Gb SSD boot, a 7200 4Tb, another 3Tb, and my first first boot SSD (256) used as a target for ripping our DVDs. Speeds that up a bit.
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You should have kept the data on the old drives as secondary or third backup just in case. unless you plan on using them for something else.
I have all my 4TB drives from my plex server sitting in a box with the data still on them just in case something happens to my other drives.
 
Keljian said:
Microwave won't kill the chip..
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but it will kill the microwave
Zepher said:
just label it and stick it in a drawer,
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On another note, I was looking through my drawer and in the back I found a Samsung 1TB EVO that I forgot I had.
It got pushed all the way towards the back of the drawer.
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Relatable... I have a bunch of old Harddrives around here I pulled from old computers/ devices and never did anything with... I think the smallest is a 160GB Hitachi drive
 
atarione said:
but it will kill the microwave

Relatable... I have a bunch of old Harddrives around here I pulled from old computers/ devices and never did anything with... I think the smallest is a 160GB Hitachi drive
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Just wondering. Are there charities or non-profit groups that can use these drives, maybe as part of a program to provide (old) systems to people who can't afford to buy them?
 
philb2 said:
Just wondering. Are there charities or non-profit groups that can use these drives, maybe as part of a program to provide (old) systems to people who can't afford to buy them?
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Check with your local community college, they may have some need of it. Or they may be able to tell you who could.
 
The Pawn Stars have a 20mm canon ripped from a WWII Zero for sale...
 
philb2 said:
In another thread, https://hardforum.com/threads/reviving-ssd-with-only-16-health-per-hd-sentinel-pro.2021969/, I asked if this SSD can somehow be revived and reused. If not, then I need to physically destroy it so someone with better skills than I have can revive the drive and read off all the private data that is on this drive. The drive is a Crucial MX 300. https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-525GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B01IAGSD5O There are no screws in the drive case, which you can see in the Amazon product photos.

I seriously doubt the drive is still in warranty, which is five years.
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I'm a big fan of destruction via fire, just don't breathe it in. Get a rip roaring outdoor fire in a firepit with some hardwood like well-seasoned 2 or 3 summers of seasoning red oak, white oak, post oak etc going and toss it in, observe from not downwind. If you have more time and graduated cylinders or another means of measuring things thermite is a fun project as well.
 
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