I have used the platters for art. Effectively putting holes in them. If you wanted to give me the platters, I would make art out of them.
I am sure there are people closer who would as well. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a stack of failed hard drives, each of which has failed sometime > in the ancient past (maybe as long ago as the '90s). The only reason I > still have them is that there is personal data on them. I realize that > if they failed it is unlikely they could be recovered without expensive > equipment, but I'm wondering if the best thing to do is to convert them > to blocks of aluminum with holes in them. I'm thinking that I could > drill a hole through each one of them before sending them to recycling > and the old data will be hard to get, even with the expensive equipment. > > Any better ideas? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- John Sechrest . . . . . [email protected] . @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> . http://www.oomaat.com . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
