Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of?

Char Jackson <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:23:16 -0600
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:32:09 -0600, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 1/21/2024 10:17 AM, Ant wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g.,
>> old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Do you physically destroy them at
>> home and toss the pieces into trash? Go to a place that have drive
>> shredders (can't find many around my location)?
>> 
>> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
>
>Screwdriver through the air vent, scratch the disks.

Fine for the topmost surface of the topmost platter. What about the rest? :)

I don't really think it's a problem, but just saying. 

That reminds me that the new Seagate 30TB drive is made up of ten 3TB platters.
I didn't think they could fit 10 platters into that form factor.