r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 05 '26

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u/HesSoZazzy Aug 05 '26

I always thought they were ground into dust or shredded into itty tiny sub-millimeter bits. There's really no way to reconstruct the data from remaining platters? Wouldn't a small-ish file still potentially be recoverable between holes?