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

Ant <[email protected]> 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)?

Drill out the screws holding the plate onto the case (although I do have
small Torx screwdrivers that will also work).  Same for the screws
holding the platters onto the spindle.  Use a drill-mounted wire brush
to burnish off the platter surfaces.  Of course, just bending the
platters make they useless.  I'm not so paranoid that I'm worried some
trash picker is going to pay for restoring data off the bent platters.