How do you dispose of old hard drives.
How do you dispose of old hard drives.
we have a bunch of very old Hard drives from years ago .
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Executioner
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Re: How do you dispose of old hard drives.
How old are they? If they have important data that you don't want anyone to recover, open them and break the spinning disk.
Re: How do you dispose of old hard drives.
Or take them out to the range and use long distance hole punchers.
Re: How do you dispose of old hard drives.
In our office, they're picked up by a company that shreds them onsite.
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Re: How do you dispose of old hard drives.
I just drill a couple of holes in the platter. Sure, the NSA might be able to get something off them, but I don't think they want my porn. 
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Re: How do you dispose of old hard drives.
Especially none of that archived stuff you've got from the 80s. LMAOFlyingPenguin wrote: ↑Thu May 29, 2025 11:08 am I just drill a couple of holes in the platter. Sure, the NSA might be able to get something off them, but I don't think they want my porn.
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