[Hidden-tech] DESTROYING OLD HDDS...

[Zach Fried]

Just be careful with young kids and rare earth magnets:
http://www.first4magnets.com/tech-centre-i61/health-and-safety-information-i73

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Nate DeRose <natederose at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Personally, I'm a fan of taking them apart and re-purposing the rare earth
> magnets, since they're great for craft projects for kids/etc.   The
> platters themselves can then be either smashed or dealt with however you
> see fit, but there's a fair amount of material in there you can up-cycle.
> I've also had kids or friends with kids have fun using the controller
> boards as art projects.  The chassis I then let go to scrap.
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> Nate DeRose
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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:35 PM, scot <scot at scotbroderick.com> wrote:
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>> The old school approach is to drive a couple of nails through the drive.
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>> Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "David F. Farkas" <david at farkas.com>
>> Date: 03/20/2016 7:17 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: hidden-discuss <Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
>> Subject: [Hidden-tech] DESTROYING OLD HDDS...
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>> I have a five IDE hard drives from various old machines. They still have
>> data on them.
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>> Is there an inexpensive service that will destroy them? I've heard that
>> they can be shredded.
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>> Any suggestions or referrals would be appreciated.
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>> Thanx
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>> David
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