If they crashed, it would be hard to recover data without special equipment. If they contained sensitive data, getting them really hot would erase them, as would putting them through a strong magnetic field.
One of the specifications for the rooms in which mag tapes were stored in the old days was that there be no service electric outlets -- there had been cases of people using a floor waxer, etc. and bulk erasing a row or two of tapes. Old CDs make handy reflectors along driveways.... Choppy At 05:42 PM 1/17/03 -0600, you wrote: >Which brings up the issue, just how DO you dispose of these types of things. >I have several old hard drives that crashed a few years ago and I just never >got around to throwing them out. Also, after making periodic backups of >crucial data onto CDs every so often those things have just piled up. What >does everyone do to dispose of these things? I don't want to have to take a >stack of CDs out back every so often and beat them up with a >hammer....hehehe. That sounds so primitive in this day and age. I can't >wait for replies to this.
