[ale] HDD Disposal/Recyling near Sandy Springs?

[Derek Atkins]

Thanks, Solomon,

On Sun, January 24, 2021 12:09 pm, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:58:52AM -0500, Derek Atkins via Ale wrote:
>> Due to their age (over 45000 hours power-on, over 5 years since
>> purchase)
>> they are most likely out of warranty.  But I don't want to just toss
>> them
>> in the trash if there is a more environmentally friendly way to dispose
>> of
>> them.
>
> Well, it's more the "mentally" friendly than "environmentally" but I'm a
> strong proponent of disposing of hard drives by means of a few
> 30-ish-caliber holes.
>
> Or just disassemble them and turn the platters into (very) shiny
> windchimes...

The only data that would be on these disks are Fedora/CentOS distribution
archives, encrypted backups, and 2 Time Machine backup storage sites.  So
it's either public data or encrypted..  (except for TM -- I don't know if
TM encrypts the storage of backups).  I am fairly confident that the
badblocks has overwritten the platters sufficiently.

-derek

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