Electronics Recycling

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Good point which brings up another question: what do you do with the hard drive? I don't want to go so far as to disassemble it to remove and then shred the platters. Any suggestions on this?

Magnets

sledgehammer

Or buy some software that will really super wipe the drive.

I prefer the sledgehammer method.

Or keep it, buy a case for it and use it as an external drive for your new machine.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Magnets

sledgehammer

Or buy some software that will really super wipe the drive.

I prefer the sledgehammer method.

Or keep it, buy a case for it and use it as an external drive for your new machine.

Apple has built in to their OS an optional "secure empty trash" function which basically writes nonsense data over the files being deleted.

But I have some bare SCSI drives that I want to discard. Unfortunately, I don't have any working computers with SCSI drives or ports (I do have a SCSI external enclosure). I could probably get an adapter I guess.

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

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Or keep it, buy a case for it and use it as an external drive for your new machine.

That's what I do...I have every hard drive I've ever owned...it's sometimes fun to poke through them and giggle at what I once thought was so shiny...