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

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On 2024-01-21, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> 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. :)

There's a local non-profit company here that takes hard drives and
destroys them for you. If they are operational, they securely sanitize
them, overwriting all data multiple times and then repurpose them for
free or low cost to the community. If not, they physically destroy
(shred) and recycle them.

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What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-21 16:17 +0000
  Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-01-21 11:47 -0600
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