Re: Proper disposal of hard drives? -- PCTECH

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Take a metal bit and just drill right through the board and casing and right
through the platters... also a .50 cal slug works real well as well... :)

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 10:49 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Proper disposal of hard drives?

Once a year we have a free electronics dump-off here in Palatine. This
year I really cleaned out the junk; they didn't believe that I wasn't
cleaning out an office. Wheaton has something similar on the first
Saturday of every month.

Joe

Good grief. Please don't. You'll just release toxic chemicals into the

air

if you do.

Use a screwdriver & remove the circuit board. Snap it in two. Take a

drill

with a bit made for metal & drill 2 or 3 holes through the platters.

After

that it would take Hurculean effort and expense to recover the data.

Then check with your city/county government or waste hauler about safe
electronics recycling.

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