InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.workstoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Disposing of failed HDDsEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Warrantied drives still fail, they just happen to ship you a replacement.

    Commercial drive trashing solutions are basically a smaller, fancier version of the mechanism in a log splitter.
    You could probably rig a sketchy drive wedge/bending thing with a pump jack rather easily.
    Wear PPE.

    The odds of someone taking a failed drive and transplanting the platters to a working drive is pretty low to begin with.

    Me? I don’t have tons of drives to destroy, so I just unscrew the thing, get the platters out and smash those.