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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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In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2024-01-24, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
> > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> 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)?
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >
> > Some cities have shredding events, and include drives (HDD, SSD, USB).
> > These are events, so you have to wait until the next one.

> Luckily, this organization lets you drop off items whenever you want.

> > Considering how easy HDDs can be dismantled, I wouldn't bother
> > waiting.

> It does take time away from doing other things though, so for me
> dropping off a bunch of drives every once in a while is more convenient.

For me, I can't due to my disabilities. I don't mind paying a little to 
shred them. Some places are crazy expensive like $25 per drive.
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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
  Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-21 19:55 +0100
  Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2024-01-21 14:28 -0600
  Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2024-01-21 20:12 -0700
  Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-01-23 15:32 -0600
    Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2024-01-23 17:23 -0600
    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> - 2024-01-23 20:30 -0600
      Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-01-24 15:14 -0600
  Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-24 16:49 +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> - 2024-01-24 11:53 -0600
      Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-24 18:30 +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? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-24 20:39 +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> - 2024-01-24 16:11 -0600
            Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-25 00:05 +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> - 2024-01-24 18:33 -0600
                Re: What do you do with your personal home dead/broken storage drives (e.g., old HDDs) that you want to get rid of? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-25 16:34 +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? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-01-24 23:58 +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? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-25 01:51 +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> - 2024-01-24 23:35 -0600
  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 <usenet@writer.com> - 2024-02-04 06:58 -0800
    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> - 2024-02-04 10:41 -0600

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