Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

[drlegendre]

Take them up to the 'range, around Virginia or Eveleth MN, and pay one of
the demo crews to stick the drives at the bottom of their next borehole.

Ka-blooey! Nothing left but an artificial bauxite deposit.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 7:10 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> I can only assume someone is paying you to do this for insurance or legal
> purposes.  There is a good poem, "John Barleycorn Must Die" which has a lot
> of useful suggestions.
> bill
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:04 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > Or just throw it in the garbage.  Do you really think people are going
> > thru your
> >
> > stuff looking for data?
> >
> >
> > bill
> >
> >
> >
> > On 09/20/2018 11:37 PM, drlegendre via cctalk wrote:
> > > If you're that intent on firey destruction, it would be much simpler &
> > > safer to use an oxyacetylene cutting torch, or a plasma cutter.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:20 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <
> > cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Anyone have advice on making thermite? Ingredients, sources,
> > proportions?
> > >>
> > >> The internet seems to think that just using aluminum powder with
> ferric
> > >> oxide is relatively hard to ignite, and that some manganese dioxide
> > would
> > >> help with that.
> > >>
> > >> Without spending too much time shopping, it looks like I can get:
> > >> * aluminum powder, 5 micron, 2 lb for $34
> > >> * ferric oxide, 10 lb for $27
> > >> * manganese dioxide, 1 lb for $39
> > >>
> >
> >
>