Disassemble them yourself. Platters become shiny coasters or high-tech mobile components (the artsy things that hang from the ceiling). Magnets get stuck to the fridge and never come off.
-- Paul "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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
