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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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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?
Date: 24 Jan 2024 18:30:54 GMT
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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.

> Plus, as Char mentions, you get a plus on the strong magnets inside.
> Nice to have something than nothing.  Plus the platters can be used as
> shiny coasters.

I've been using and discarding hard drives for far too many years for
that to be attractive. I already have plenty of fridge magnets, and
would need yet another a box just to keep all of them in, and I'm always
trying to downsize as much as I can anyway. 🤣

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