[PLUG] Old Hard Drive Disposal

[guy1656 at opusnet.com]

Two ideas:

1) You can try a .50cal rifle, and 1 round can go through quite a few of
them.
Contact me privately if you want to give this a "shot."

2) If the individual disks ( 2 - 4 to a drive) are similar size and
thickness, you can make a handy little Tesla-style disk turbine or pump af
a mechancal engineering project.

- GLL

Original Message:
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From: Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:19:23 -0700
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Old Hard Drive Disposal


I have a stack of failed hard drives, each of which has failed sometime 
in the ancient past (maybe as long ago as the '90s). The only reason I 
still have them is that there is personal data on them. I realize that 
if they failed it is unlikely they could be recovered without expensive 
equipment, but I'm wondering if the best thing to do is to convert them 
to blocks of aluminum with holes in them. I'm thinking that I could 
drill a hole through each one of them before sending them to recycling 
and the old data will be hard to get, even with the expensive equipment.

Any better ideas?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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