Okay /prog/.
Here's a scenario:

tfw you're a rapist, drug dealer, hacker whatever
you have all your hard drives to one side which contains a lot of illegal evidence.
you're expecting swat.
swat comes and they're knocking your door down.
you have 30 seconds

What would you find the quickest way to destroy all of your hard drives /prog/?

A large industrial magnet. Keep it close to hard drives at all times. Wipe it several times in the same direction on each hard drive.

Unless you physically break the disc, a level 3 recovery will reveal all.

If you have a fucking SWAT team come to your house I assure you they will not be knocking. You also would not have even 30 seconds.

>>1
Here's a good question. Could you be arrested if you never had anything to begin with?

>>3
>>4
Only valid responses - ignore all else.

>>5
Of course not, they can't prove anything

>>4

this.

Best bet is magnesium to burn through them all with a quick electronic starter...even this isn't full proof if they catch the drives before they are incenerated...also good chance your place will burn down.

Unless it's topingless pizza you're hoarding why even keep evidence around? Also stack of hard drives? Seriously just have one large drive. wtf? If you're up to something that can land you in the big house and you're not making enough to afford one drive instead of tons of small old used drives you should probably re evaluate if it's worth it.

Insert it firmly in your anus.

>>1
Hold them in front of your body, then animate the guys to shoot you.

>>1
Forensic IT fag here:
Successful criminals don't store shit on HDDs, they don't store shit on digital media at all (unless they are niggers).
Anyone worth their salt has a notebook that they keep elsewhere that can be easily burnt
That, and when you front door has been kicked in and the trained armed individuals make it to your room within 20 seconds (assuming you are awake and alert) you probably won't have time to destroy anything.

If you wanted to get shit for destroying evidence you could make a thermite (home made) kill switch easily enough, but destroying evidence when being raided probably won't help you.

The catches of having your shit elsewhere:

If you store it with family, they will be raided too and harassed by the police, causing dislike towards you
If you leave it with a friend/girlfriend('s family) they will dislike you
Nobody want to get harassed or be threatened with arrests because of you

Do what any reasonable white gang does, get a mouthy little white guy to be the fall guy, have him be in possession of the proof, pay/protect him and when you get pulled over, he has the drugs/evidence, he takes the fall because he thinks his group are looking after him. More often than not they have their sentences reduced quickly (or they do in the UK at least) if the police know they are the fall guy.

>>3
What this guy said.

Keep your hard drives open and exposed. Smash with a ball peen hammet on the discs as hard as you fucking can. The discs will shatter into a bunch of pieces like shattered glass. If possible, wipe them with an industial magnet after tou smash.

Another way is to drill many holes through and then smash them with the ball peen hammer. This takes more time obviously. Perhaps making a contraption that will drill many holes at once would help?

>>12

Keep your hard drives open and exposed

HDDs don't work if you remove the covers Anon.
Also data can be recovered from the remaining discs that aren't smashed.

ALSO having an elaborate drill/destruction system for a HDD doesn't play well when you are being questioned.

>>1
In 30 seconds there is not much you can do, you can't inflict enough damage to render the data unreadable, so your best solution is to have a great hiding place.

After all is over, implying they didn't find your drive, open it and fuck the platter up, i mean really bad, destroy that piece of shit.

>>13
I didnt mean open the hard drives lol. I meant keep them out of the pc case so you have fast access. My bad for being a little vague