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]> Sun, 4 Feb 2024 06:58:10 -0800
Newsgroups alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
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On 1/21/2024 8:17 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. :)
Put the drive on a concrete floor and beat on it (hard) with a sledge 
hammer. It's that simple.