disposing of old hard drives

[Sirbendy]

I use DBAN if requested to (Heads home PC etc), other than that..we play football with them down the stairs, or the "lob it out of the window" game.

[Midget]

In my place we have a bulk load done every few months and we just use a drill to make a hole through the lid and platters into the chassis. Desktop HDDs just gain a hole, but laptop HDDs shatter.

Not a lot of fun after a while so its given to the newest starters.

[sidewinder]

I know I replied to this already but seriously what is the point of smashing them up? What a waste

We just do a basic wipe and leave them in the PC's, that way when we donate the PCs to a local primary school or something they can actually use them!

 

There is nothing sensitive on local hard drives, the chances of anything being recovered are so minute

[chrbb]

My hard drives to be disposed of are from those old pcs that have been donated to local primary schools! No one would want the computers these are from.