Will microwaving a flash drive destroy the data on it?
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After reading the answers on Permanently delete files from a flash drive, where the top rated answer was simply to pulverize it with a hammer, I wondered whether a microwave could be used to the same effect. I know microwaves induce currents in metallic objects, which act as antennae (Wikipedia), s…
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Yes, a microwave should be very effective at destroying the gates in a simple flash chip, unless the flash chip was "shielded" like a PCMIA type flash chunk or a SDD, in those situations it would probably destroy the controller, push power back into…
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