That is some pure, nerdy, Stephen Wright comedy right there.

Uh oh

Huh, what family? Are you sure you're not just misrenembering?

F

I can’t find my house!

or if you throw it in magma.

Lol, nice one!

Too true. A friend accidentally deleted his term paper. He called me in panic, I told him to not touch anything and went to his place. I tried to save his paper that got deleted maybe two hours ago and it was gone, while I could find old pictures on his HD that were years old. I guess this was a case of really bad luck, since his Windows 10 was downloading an update at this time, but still. But then again, he kind of deserved it, since he always laughed at my attempts of teaching him about the importance of backups.

Nothing left to say after that.

@@Furzkampfbomber Hopefully he was able to rewrite it and get it done

It's funny, because he did grow the beard

And now it's relevant again

Formats c drive

I did this and my pc disappeared wtf

I mean tbh it’d take like a few hours but it’s a good logic lol

I just grab a napkin and wipe my pc with it

@@twandepannapkins

oh my god correct

yeah that part is giving me anxiety XD

Hotel: trivago

@@LoLingVo your parents are gone you can curse

Every movie be like

I was thinking about the Matrix too...

@@ganswijk this guy goes deeper to the movie alice in wonderland the amtrixx is a joke for this dude

Oh my god

Brilliant

Stop listening to the Mainstream Media. Get Red usb-keyed bro!

hmmmmmmmmmm

@@maxgames. nice profile pic

@@rpxt what about my pfp

100% true lol

these pfps....

Or ending up softlocking the system entirely because you delete the program that deletes other files. This tends to happen fairly easily when you do a simple "rm -rf /", which works on Windows and Linux.

@Anoneemus Noename Advertising in a nutshell

if you want to wipe your disk on 2 minutes... put it on the microwave.....

@@Sebastian-cn8lh Just put your hdd on a super powerful magnet and in case of ssd just break the nand flash

Hammer is safes way to destroy data ask Hillary c

@@vrajeshpc it's hard to get a magnet powerfully enough as a consumer. Hard drives still work even after a magnet capable of lifting dozens of kilos is attached to the hard drive. You might kill it when using it while it's running, but you will be able to read the Data

Don't leave loaded weapons lying around then...

I would attempt necc rope if that hapens

It should not be that difficult, since several discs will be dressed simultaneously. the erasure will take as long as it takes the largest disk to be vital, let's say 6hs for 8TB as it took 1.5hs for 2TB. the erase is simultaneous non-sequential for the disk set.

9007199254740992

Ever hear of a trojan called Arcticbomb? It only works on Windows 9x but it would be fun if that one was still around.

Do you recommend the red key USB method or simple Windows Reset and remove files option? Is either one recoverable?

I have an Acer Aspire A515 I need to clear the driver, I cnt open any programs or apps nor pc reset. What's the best method?

xD

lolmao XD

Xd

it's a feature, not a bug!

Seagate? More like Toshiba

FBI OPEN UP

#Hillary

I bleach it, Just like Hilary Clinton

FUCK. You beat me by ONE HOUR.

I got to get all the wankstains off

havent you/they using linux on work? dd could handle it

Even if it did work, you would still have to physically break the drive for assurance

@@InsufferableCrap There indeed is not any reason for software wiping if you do not want to retain the drive afterward. Household items like hammers and screwdrivers can easily surpass military-grade solutions!

I work for an IT company that handles a lot of banking stuff. We don't wipe our drives. Instead We just crush them until they are like Sand. Cant go wrong with that.

What software do you use to wipe? Is it available to the public?

More like two days!😂

*mic drop*

Love it

HA, but SSD fortunatelly is Linus proof

@@timojissink4715 *Linus lols while droping ssd in water*

Map Crafter he could just submerge it into isopropyl and let it dry

So underrated 🤣

Yeah

HE'S A GAE BOI!

@GrassFedMeats That doesn’t make sense, some people aren’t meant to be parents because you know... *a b u s e*

I have perform a mild giggle

that sentence made my ears hurt so much

More RBG means more power tho

advertises*

Yea, he definitely should have shown the gold sticks. Those ones are worth it

Why tho rgb ram sticks

@@smikkelbeerbiedo217 cause fun

LOL

what would Neo do tho?

@@Mrbeat-88 lemme find out ill follow that key all day (i bet most folks woken went literally insane haha)

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue key-the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red key-you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

David Patmel this comment is underrated.. :(

Makes sense

@Anunoriginaljoke timestamp plz?

that are also unnecesary

@@pankoza That's the joke

@@lukebell4738 i know and i got the joke

@@CakePrincessCelestia Press F to pay respects

@@pankoza r/wooosh

That would literally end a reviewer's career

**microwave

The London Drugs where I live does electronics recycling and apparently they take a hammer to any hard drives they take in.

@@EpicB yeah but i wouldnt trust them say if u dont wipe your drive alot of info u probably dont want other to have social security numbers credit card numbers etc

@@collinamalong8057 Which is why you should erase the drive yourself before recycling it or giving it away.

NAH THATS A LIE. YOU JUST WANT LIKES

He always does that lol

frankly one should rather make a tool that just goes secure erase on SSDs because that is probably faster AND saves livetime compared to overwriting it.

wtfitsaduck ._. yeaaaaaaa.... It's a little clickbait but it's also true. It only takes like 2 min to boot to the key.

I got fooled. Only watched the video because I thought there was a fast way to securely wipe a drive

@@Stickywulf1 You can encrypt your hard drive and just toss it without wiping it if you ever want to get rid of it. It takes 0 seconds to securely wipe the drive.

@@Eremon1 that's the recovery time u bag of hard marshmallows

@@soakkey9317 haha

@@soakkey9317 gun go pew pew

@@soakkey9317 and.... your on an FBI watchlist lol

all of these replies are r/cursedcomments

Yes yes yes yes yes, thank you for that idea

positive air pressure and fan filters. i havnt had ANY dust in my pc in 1 year, and i live in a dusty ass definitely-not-sanitary home

@@bmxscape thats a lie

@@relgames6080 are you dumb? you literally filter the air going in your pc, how is it complicated to you?

@@bmxscape nice lie

@Ed Bedhead hahaha enjoy ur dusty ass pc's losers. nylon filters block all dust bud, and the positive pressure makes 0 dust able to get in through any crack or crevice

Forget the damn house, my own AMOLED Samsung doesn't even come close

I used the key... to destroy the key

I’m sorry little key

Actually, Discord just shuffled the ones and zeros a bit to his likings :)

Isn't ones and zeros data?

Red key is inevitable

I think smashing the HDD with a hammer a few times and then throw it in the microwave until it sparks is more sufficient in that situation and should only take one minute.

encrypt your hdd, and spent 0.0001ms wiping the encryption key.

@@Eremon1 your key could just be derived from a passcode you enter or something, i mean yeah in theroy* they could have a keylogger in IME and send it over to intel on the internet and shit but then ime has to implement a full network stack and send stuff out, which you could eaislly detect them doing >_< . (also IME does not know your wifi password, but it could theretically steal it from whatever os ur usign (or even use that OS'es network feaures to send shit over) but i mean really??

If you are in a hurry, you use a drill.

Pina wait. Where is the encryption key for bitlocker stored???

So basically you just want a terabyte of rickrolls that you can import over after the whipe

linus logic....

7 hours...

Ten years

If you have the most powerful pc in 2045 it will take 2 minutes

OOOF

Hammers don't effectively destroy HDDs, data is still recoverable. The easiest way is to drill a number of holes through it or throw the disk itself in the wood chipper.

@@sarahk236 theoretically, even that is still recoverable.

@@JoeyLindsay Very difficultly, a lot of data would be lost, and it would be difficult to find someone to agree to try to recover it. But, theoretically.

@@sarahk236 just disassemble it and microwave it (dont microwave like the outer layer of metal it's like a shield) c:

​@@ThatKidinAfrica A HDD disk stores information magnetically, which fire does not generally interfere with. You'd need a very high temperature to melt the materials.

i am so glad i looked into it and found out how to stop the free upgrade to win10 on my parents pc. that has win media centre and 100s of hrs of recorded tv......because they lied, win10 did not support win media centre files

@@nekomancer9157 I didn't upgrade my Win10 either. Because it would break all programs I had installed on a several years old computer. IT was simply not worth it.

I was bummed when I found out the hard way, even VLC is fune, I miss what was taken from me😖😥

No need to buy tht stupid key

Windows 10 is a piece of fucking shit period

Disk shredders work pretty well.. though they are far more costly than wiping and reusing drives

In the USAF back in the late 80s we had to pull out platters and sand off the magnetic material. Granted it was TS SCI data.

He did. The data is fully destroyed, meaning the drives could be reused for non-critical storage, or sold secondhand for marginal roi, decreasing waste, and increasing revenue, however slightly.

@@michaelhearn7302 in the words of Frank Lucas MY MAN

nuclear missile :D

u can use any linux distro on usb stick and run "dd" program, that copies anything from a to b, and choose hard disk as destination and /dev/zero or /dev/random or /dev/urandom as source. Also on SSD auto trim wipes any deleted data by default

@@darvamehleran786 yeah but then you have to run Linux

@@rootytootyfreshnfruity9480 wot the problem to run it from usb stick? I use one to make or move copies/backups of harddrives

I saw that too

In that video his raid array failed so it's a little different than having data on a single disk.

@@Keyn0rHaX rebuild the raid and its back tho

@@Amperrs i hope this is sarcasm :D if some of the data in a raid is missing like a hard disk failiure or data curruption then it would be physicly impossible to recover any data due to the data being spread over multiple drives. it would be like trying to solve A+_=_ where A is data that you have on the drives, _ is the lost data. you physicly dont have the data to rebuild the drives. This is where parity is used for raid arrays that stores the outcome so that it could. to use the example A+_=C where C is the parity that you use to calculate the lost data. luckily for LTT it was a raid card faliure so yes they were able to rebuild the array becuase there was no data lost. :D

@@anonymousfan6677 on chromebooks all data is encrypted so even when someone could recover the data, as long as they can't break the encryption, they can't do anything with the data

Clickbait intensifies.

same thing i said..maybe he selected the wrong option...as usual no idea what the fuck he is doing...just wasted time reviewing a video of his which is complete garbage and a waste of everyones time. Please they need to get someone else to do these things and be prepared in the future jesus...what an ignoramus.

Could have been the tagline of the product

@@jamesw71 Agreed James. The presenter guy is the only reason I don't normally watch this channel. A good IT guy shows his/her brilliance through their work alone. This guy is just annoying!

@@jamesw71 ^

Matěj Šrámek Everyone around here has no problem bowing to our corporate overlords and doesn’t realize this channel is one giant ad. Glad I’m not the only one.

Or L 2 times

@@themonroe654hd6 Ah, yes, bring on communism! Fucking kids...

I do the same exact thing lol

@@themonroe654hd6 By that logic any good review for any product is an advertisement, which can be true sometimes but is disingenuous to say it always is. Don't watch the channel and then come here to bitch if you don't like it.

And then you plug it back in, and somehow, *SOMEHOW*, one picture shows up melted and corrupted

You will be melted as well

The Brits used to shred their Top Secret HDs down to fine pieces of metal, then KEEP the shredded metal restricted...just in case.

Dad_a_Monk British security services still do.

just put it in a shredder lol

Lol true

Actually, you’re wrong Linus used Recuva which only finds deleted files Keyword: DELETED It’s actually Windows’ fault

@@francoisdang those are files that were used to wipe the pc..

Not the full reset option. The partial reset reinstalls windows.

wouldn't the red key delete those files

It wont do anything unless it is booted off the "KEY"

@@warrobotstankers9554 that's true but you can still laugh at the joke

*7 weeks later...*

We don't need another incident of a former employee wiping an entire server.

*Sweats Nervously*

Interesting. It seems , that ot's more worth destroying drive and buying new one at this point. Or what about very strong elecrtomagnet (for hdd's)

@@tornad8063 it doesn't need to be too strong of an electromagnet, a d battery, wire, and a nail is good enough, but even then someone could recover bits of data. If you really want to make it impossible for people to scrape data, run the electromagnet, disassemble the enclosure, and put the platters through a shredder

Best way is to destroy it fysically. Maybe hammer to a child and ask what is inside of your drive and leave?

@@tornad8063 if you were in a last second need to destroy files off of a drive, the best way is to just physically destroy the drive and scatter the remnants. If it’s one thing I learned from spooks while I was in the military, it’s that data is almost always salvageable if the drive still functions. Better safe than sorry, if you were in those extreme conditions I mean.

I know I’m a bit late, but I think I saw a military standard on the red key when he was choosing the wipe method

On a NTFS partition it is stored on the $MFT (Master file table) which keeps track of the files and where they are stored. ON an FAT system they are stored in the Directory entries.

Gurben92 NTFS has most filenames in at least two places: $MFT and the directory index. Then there's the journal, recovery etc. But yeah I stopped watching when he opened by getting basic stuff wrong that anyone needs to know just to fix mistakes or upgrade hard drives.

John Francis Doe ya know, the basic things that _every_ consumer knows off the top of their head

You mean LGBTQ

How could it be a Linus Tech Tips video *WITHOUT RGB!!!???*

But seriously, that bling on the RAM, come on is dust so overrated?

1:37

Taikamuna and drops

This is what I wanted to see.

Good luck finding anything on that drive.. those services recover *broken* drives, not formatted ones so they may not be able to work with an empty drive. Also I am curios if a brand new drive that you just plugged in has anything from the factory testing left.

Ah shittttt made my day, nice comment😅

im happy to report i love this comment and made the like count 69

your profile pic looks like a knock off of the logo for the nasa artemis mission

@rk 4391 no u

BTW, Eraser is good too (eraser.heidi.ie/)

Personal more like pornsonal

*FBI wants to know your location

I like the fisting motion when he went through the deletion methods.

That may very well be the best business plan ever made.

not to mention that there are free open source utilities that you can download

a Bash Bunny very likely could do this

Money is Money

Not even joking, I would honestly pay for it.

Vulcano.

@bacon banana Yeah, right next to the mariana trench.

@@Anonymous-ze5sl wow, respect, that'd be too annoying with all the smoke and ash, I always keep my volcanoes in the backyard in a cage and only let them out for barbeques

@bacon banana The microwave will damage some of the data, but not all. It used to be that some companies would use a degausser, but it was found that the magnetic plates in hard drives could still contain some of the previous data. Hammer is good. A drill through all the drive plates is faster, safer, and just as effective because it cracks the plates, making data recovery impossible without a time machine.

Even physically destroyed disks can be recovered, there are peoples who destroyed disk with hammer and nail it, and it was recovered, most of the data. So, its not enough breaking it apart. Damaging electronic with microwave doesnt killing the plates that contains data, but chips, controllers, etc. Fire can damage plates, but sometime it doesnt. Since disk drives are plated for storing magnetic waves (like if there is a positive wave, it represents 1, and if its flat, means 0), and since each sector got this waves in the waves of the waves, such as water drop that create lots of waves (because one sector in a lifetime was changed many times), remembering all informations it ever had, putting you in position to recover eg. 10TB of data from a 1TB drive, but because it needs time for digging and combining deeper data, doing multiple wipe cycles will increase depth level, slowing deeper recovery and making more possibilities of reconstruction the data is useful. But still, data exists. And since its based on storing a magnetic waves, its best to bring monster magnet and deform all this waves (data) of all sectors to some random spikes and shapes that make no sense. However, because magnet will do it extremely, pulling hell of a plates, crossing its sectors fields between, plates wont be useful, and head wont be able to read or write any data on it, because it would be like driving over the forest, trying to find the road that make sense or to make one with flat sliding head.

@@bower95 Which in this case generated random ( and corrupt ) files. So seems legit.

Lol it just fills your drive with noise

@Brad Allen As explained, the system is just detecting random binary as actual data

🤯

@Brad Allen It won't result in readable data, but it will result in places in the drive that look like data, but aren't. As they said, it was detected as a file type which wasn't even on the drive to begin with

Lol

Thanks darth vader, very cool.

Darth Vader there is Mc cracked with cracked servers

Macintosh99 - fbi opn up

@@yo5942 Mc Craked

lol....

I did it on a pair of laptops and it took a little over 24 hours.

What did you have on there man

@@domlee5902 he probably had some kiddy stuff if you know what i mean rofl

I'm genuinely worried about what you were trying to hide

lmaoo

Hello fellow Paul

@@Sir. yes Pauls are the best!

@@paulnathanielsmith no, Geoffs are the best

@@vaishnav3735 lol

does that work on cats too?

worth a try.

Linux gang assemble

@@AppallingScholar whats dd?

@@Clearshot128 oh ok

GamersForLife disk destroyer

Or use shred. That usually works to zero fill drives.

*IRRETRIEVABLE*

Hydrochloric acid or bromine... A hammer is expensive. Rocks are cheap.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8igi5uK27TLZo0.html

Do it with your bare hands!!!

Software solutions are better.

That's 5 seconds.

But personally I would do it with a chainsaw

That's pretty fast! How much FPS of your eyes? :)

SAME

I started thinking Razer made RAM

Yup, me too and checking his phone to see who the sponsor is? Segways be damned

RAZER MASTER RACE ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

What about data recovery from corrupt filesystems, etc. This is not an uncommon occurence especially when its windows' time of the month. Are there free, good recovery tools supporting encrypted filesystems? This is the only thing stoppung me tbh.

Encrypted drives are a good way to lose performance

@N3dR Back your data up. Don't rely on trying to recover it after the fact, especially with modern SSDs that add even more layers of abstraction between the physical storage and your data as well as regularly running TRIM in the background. You're better off assuming all data on a borked drive is lost as far as normal recovery goes. Even if it can be recovered it is often prohibitively expensive to hire a company to attempt recovery.

Joel Taggart Doesn’t seem to make a difference on my MacBook Pro

Jeff , there are some companies that wipe drives for auditing purposes (or down right destroys them with a drill press) that being said i'm curious if the red key offers a certificate of data removal or if it's similar to DBAN .

Perfect for when you finish watching a really good Netflix series

You need an adapter and power supply but it should work if you have them

Vodka, lots and lots of vodka

Benzos.

I wish man.

duh

Something tells me that if this were the case, the kickstarter would have been a complete failure 😂

Write protect?

It don't delete itself :)

@@RedkeyUSB Then it lied!