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

bilsch01 <[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)?
>
> Put the drive on a concrete floor and beat on it (hard) with a sledge 
> hammer. It's that simple.

The OP mentioned a disability, but not if that meant about physically
destroying a drive, or driving to deliver to a shredder service.  I
would think the shredders would accept postal mail-ins, and our USPS
will deliver priority shipping packaging for free.

Drilling through the drive to destroy the platters was mentioned, as was
using a torx screwdriver to remove the cover plate to have a go at the
platters, or just prying the PCB off the drive.  Instead, he's looking
at how to get someone else to destroy the drive (presumably it won't
mount in an OS where it could be thoroughly wiped using software).