Re: The hammer is best

On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:42:12 -0400, Joed Oakes wrote:

> 20 years ago where I worked we used the hammer and drill approach,
> but that was NEVER environmentally responsible. NOTE that Western
> Digital runs a drive recycling program for EOL hard drives. They may
> not pay you money, but they do offer credits on new hard drives.

There are third-party companies who undertake legally-binding
contracts to erase all data on used drives before reselling them.

A client of mine gets lots of drives from such a source. Here
<https://shop.core.net.nz/products/lenovo-2ru-x3650-m5-rack-server> is
an example of the sort of hardware he puts them in. That takes one or
two expansion cabinets as well, for an extra 24 drives in each.