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	Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
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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	2024-01-21 19:55 +0100
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Am 21.01.2024 um 16:17:42 Uhr schrieb Ant:

> 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?

If they are broken, they are useless, so I can destroy them with a
hammer.

If the drive still spins, putting a cent between the platters and
switching it on is rather funny.

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