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It depends on what the resale value and condition of the drives are. I pounded the crap out of a WD40gb and a WD120gb with a sledge hammer because they pissed me off way too much over the few years I had to use them. :mad:
 
Drill press to them usualy unless they didn't have anything important on them then I may recycle them.

All business drives get the drill. Next step is finding out which friend knows someone that lives out in the sticks where we can shoot them. Figure they will be good targets at 25 yards for pistols.
 
swatbat said:
Drill press to them usualy unless they didn't have anything important on them then I may recycle them.

All business drives get the drill. Next step is finding out which friend knows someone that lives out in the sticks where we can shoot them. Figure they will be good targets at 25 yards for pistols.
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300 yard rifle targets, should be a challange.
 
I mean, if you don't want 'em, ship 'em my way. My Wife could always use some extra space. If they work there is no logical reason to just toss 'em, especially if you wiped 'em to DoD standards. That's just silly... any working hardware has a use.
 
I always destroy my drives...but in ten years, I've only done it to one...none have died on their own (ripped apart a Quantum Fireball 1gb last week). Don't count on wipping to keep your data safe forever...at some point, someone will develop something that will make reading even the hardest encryption easy.
 
Where is the option for keeping them? I just stick my old drives in my old computer for data backup and storage. You should be fine selling them.
 
Obviously I wasn't asking for them for free; the plan was to pay a small fee and then shipping, but whatever squeaks your sneaker. Seems like a waste of perfectly usable hardware to me as I deal in used hardware all the time for schools, charitable organizations, thrift sfores, and people that just can't afford the biggest and the newest stuff more often than not.
 
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man you people are paranoid.

hagbard said:
Don't count on wipping to keep your data safe forever...at some point, someone will develop something that will make reading even the hardest encryption easy.
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so what your afraid someones gonna see your taxes for 05 and your pr0n collection? comon!
 
If the drive is 80GB or more, I just pick up a few External enclosures and just stick the drives in there and use them as back up drives for me and my family. You can never have too much backup. :)
 
So if the drives were always in a striped RAID0 array, for example, how much harder woud it be to get usable data off 'em?
 
Danny Bui said:
If the drive is 80GB or more, I just pick up a few External enclosures and just stick the drives in there and use them as back up drives for me and my family. You can never have too much backup. :)
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I agree. I would probably do the same thing in the OP's situation.
 
K10 said:
i just spent 18 hours wiping out 2 IDE hard drives (seagate 120 & 200gb 7200.7) using the U.S. DoD method. for what little money i'll get selling these old hard drives, i don't know if it was worth the time wiping out these hard drives.

so what do you do with your old hard drives? do you physically destroy it or sell it?
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Never tried to sell one. If I can't recycle it in an external enclosure or old system, and it's not worth keeping around as a spare, or it's developed defects, I destroy it. Step (1) is to try to wipe the drive using dban or equivalent. Step (2) is to take it apart, damage things as much as possible, separate the parts, and dispose of them separately. The magnets come out, and some are great on the refrigerator. It's amusing to watch the unsuspecting try to remove them. Those suckers are powerful!

Your drives may not have much eBay value, but they are well worth keeping for a few years, IMO. I personally wouldn't trash any functional drive >= 80 GB, unless it's an old ball-bearing screamer or something similarly obnoxious.
 
I keep them around for repairing PCs that folks bring to me. Though they might not bring much on here or any other for sale forum, I'll usually charge someone $15 for one of my spare drives.

Folks that are just browsing the web, paying bills, reading a little e-mail, don't need much in the way of storage. Just something to load the OS and programs onto. 40-80 gig drives are still plenty for those applications.
 
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