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

From	Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
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Subject	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 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:17:42 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (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. :)

I open them up, scavenge the magnets, and trash the rest.

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