[PLUG] Old Hard Drive Disposal

[John Sechrest]

I have used the platters for art. Effectively putting holes in them.

If you wanted to give me the platters, I would make art out of them.

I am sure there are people closer who would as well.



On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, 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?
>
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> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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