Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of?
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:14:24 -0600
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage |
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On 1/23/2024 8:30 PM, VanguardLH wrote: > Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ant wrote: >> >>> 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)? >> >> Screwdriver through the air vent, scratch the disks. > > Never thought I'd have the strength to push a screwdriver, or even a > small awl, through the cinter filter in the pressure equalization port. > A drill and bit might work. A hammer works just fine. The screwdriver distributes platter scratchings all over the other platters. Lynn