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Re: erasing old hard drives
- To: http://www.juno.com/~w1few (Richard), http://www.dracomp.com/~r (Richard), http://www.verizon.net/~bhavani3 (Richard)
- Subject: Re: erasing old hard drives
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:16:11 -0700
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> From: "http://www.juno.com/~w1few"; <http://www.juno.com/~w1few>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:43:00 GMT
>
> If you aren't going to use the drive again, take it apart and break the disks
> inside the drive. That's what I do when I get rid of my drives though usually
> I keep them in hopes of recovering data someday. The old save it for a rainy
> day simdrome.
> D
Well, I already have 5 of these drives and most of them are fairly tiny.
Some of them do not work any more, either. (I guess those would be safe
to get rid of.)
I just wish there were a service where you could have the drive shredded
and be done with it.