{"id":19130,"date":"2023-09-27T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T06:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19130"},"modified":"2023-09-27T23:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T06:48:18","slug":"2023-09-27-hard-disk-drives-a-hundred-plus-disassembled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19130","title":{"rendered":"2023-09-27 Hard Disk Drives &#8211; A Hundred Plus Disassembled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Pozi-drive &#8211; Is that what they call them?  Maybe this will bring back memories.  I was waiting in the checkout line at the computer store and saw a kit of, I don&#8217;t know, maybe a hundred different screwdriver bits and a cheap handle.  None of them come with documentation, but the tips are there for just about any screw head.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For security purposes we were required to wipe clean all hard disk drives or destroy them.  So at work I took way over a hundred HDDs apart with those screwdriver bits.  Most were Torx, T8, T9, sometimes T7 or T6.  I had a 6&#8243; by 9&#8243; heavy plastic bag of those tiny screws, must have weighed five pounds.  I finally spent a bunch of evenings watching the boob tube with a cafeteria tray in my lap, sorting piles of screws and filled dozens of pill bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pozi-drive &#8211; Is that what they call them? Maybe this will bring back memories. I was waiting in the checkout line at the computer store and saw a kit of, I don&#8217;t know, maybe a hundred different screwdriver bits and a cheap handle. None of them come with documentation, but the tips are there for<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19130\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,9,1346],"tags":[2771,2770],"class_list":["post-19130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-computers","category-hardware","tag-disassemble","tag-hard-disk-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19134,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions\/19134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}