Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

allison allisonportable at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 14:31:49 CDT 2018


On 09/21/2018 12:19 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> Or just throw it in the garbage.
>
> That's way too good for these *&#$ing ST3000DM001 drives, and won't provide
> anywhere near enough sense of satisfaction.
>
Shooting them is best and percussive therapy can be good.

However from a practical sense I take them out to the shop and drive a
8p nail or two
through them  taking care to go through the media and the board.

Makes short work.

Allison


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