Windows 7 - Toshiba to launch self-erasing hard drives

I can already imagine the screaming & yelling when someone swaps out a drive & forgets about this little feature...good idea though.

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Toshiba to launch self-erasing hard drives | Security - CNET News

Well this would be a nice feature to bad I didn't have it when i had my HP laptop stolen right out of my old high school. It's nice to see that Toshiba is coming out with this for the reason of protecting your Data for the case if you have personal information on your computer such as your online banking information. Now that would be bad if it got into the hands of the wrong person, In that note its not the best idea to be saving that information on your computer because even if your computer has a password it can still be stole off your computer and you never know it. Here's a question that Toshiba will have to answer at a later date when they release more info on these drives and that is, I have a Toshiba Satellite L670 can i purchase one of these new hard drives from Toshiba and install it into my laptop or is for newer Toshiba laptops? That would be a worth while investment for me and my hard drive never leaves my computer anyways so it won't be plugged into any other computer. I have seen this technology before on a older drive when i was working on a friends computer i had to pull out the hard drive because he was also having me put the components into a better case with better air flow and the hard drive erased it's self.

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RitualJman

So I can turn off the EMP shield in my computer room? They only go off if someone tries to remove a hard drive from there.

.....or it decides to EMP itself. Ooops!

I can imagine.. "We are sorry about the incovenience of losing 10 years worth of data and all your back ups but that isn't covered by the warranty!!"

all i have to say is all the headaches i'm going to get with peeps coming to me begging me to figure out how to get their data back for them are going to be HUGE.

Seeing that drives ALREADY spontaneously combust with little reason for the most part - why design one that does it on purpose?

This is a good heads up, not to buy one of those drives. If I really wanted to destroy the data on a computer of mine, I would just just the software program called Dead Man's Switch.

This is a new business opportunity.

PS: Please write in normal lettering.

yes i agree on the good opportunity to increase business
i currently have a dead 500 gig drive. i have special plans for the platters

Could you stop using those big letters in this terrible color. This is not appropriate on our forum. I consider your posts "pollution".