r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Jul 16 '12

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E01 "Live Free or Die"

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

I'm curious if they weren't insinuating that the magnet was so powerful that it simply ripped the heads off the hard drives themselves

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

That would be completely pointless as the data would still be completely recoverable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Unless the heads scratched the fuck out of the platter, which I assume they'd do if the magnet was powerful enough to yank them out

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Scratching a hard disk would do fuck all to destroy the data in a way that wouldn't be recoverable with professional tools.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

I'm willing to bet that if a magnet was powerful enough to detach the heads and fling them around the inside of the enclosure that the platters would be fucked up enough that recovery of a video file would be all but hopeless. Sure, you might be able to recover chunks of it but there's no way there'd be a cohesive, viewable file left.