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
>
>
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