Re: Killing the old i5

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They are probably worth a little 35GB drives go for maybe $30 each and 
70s for maybe $40. Though used vendors likely won't pay you for them to 
take them out.

Recycling them at least gets the aluminum and steel back and if you 
stack up a dozen 15K SCSI drives you'll see they add up in weight rather 
quickly! Some drives have a brass cover too, good money in that. I hate 
to see these things end up in a landfill.

When my son was working his way through college we disassembled and sold 
the components for literally tons of drives. Our biggest single haul was 
four 5274s completely full of drives or 360 drives in that one load.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 10/25/2017 11:16 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> I will say this too. For the environments sake (and for a little cash for
> the company vs all expense) I lean towards towards reuse vs destruction.
>
> If you delete your data, write over the whole disk with a series of
> CRTNWSSTG commands, and they use service tools to initialize the drives,
> the possibility of someone recovering data are extremely low.  To the
> point, short of DOD information, you should be safe. Then just resell the
> drives to someone else.
> OTOH, if you're only going to get $0.05 a disk then just shred them.
>
>
> Rob Berendt