[PLUG] Old Hard Drive Disposal
Paul Mullen
pm at nellump.net
Thu Jun 21 23:38:19 UTC 2012
Disassemble them yourself. Platters become shiny coasters or high-tech mobile components (the artsy things that hang from the ceiling). Magnets get stuck to the fridge and never come off.
--
Paul
"Richard C. Steffens" <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>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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