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	Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.periphs.hdd, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
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	2024-01-24 15:14 -0600
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On 1/23/2024 8:30 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ant 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)?
>>
>> Screwdriver through the air vent, scratch the disks.
> 
> Never thought I'd have the strength to push a screwdriver, or even a
> small awl, through the cinter filter in the pressure equalization port.
> A drill and bit might work.

A hammer works just fine.  The screwdriver distributes platter 
scratchings all over the other platters.

Lynn

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