I’ve got a few external hard drives I’m likely never going to use again because they’re too small to be useful by today’s standards (well under 1TB) and likely going to fail if I try to use them much more.
Where does everyone dispose of their ewaste like this? Will they take it at a shop like bic camera?
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Perform a Full format or fill it up to the brim with junk data, then toss it in those electronic disposal boxes around city halls.
Work happens to have an industrial level degauss unit for HDDs, generally considered the best option short of physical destruction I’m told.
Post them in Craigslist for free.
Take them apart and recycle the parts, except the disks. Use those as coasters for a few months until the next drive fails. Rinse and repeat.
Take them [here](https://junk.co.jp/) in Akihabara. They’ll drill them for 100 yen a pop. They’ll even let you push the button.
I remove the platters, and when I have 10, I glue them together to make Euler’s Discs.
Warhammer them to oblivion then dump the remains into a garbage at 711 or the ocean lol. In all honesty I’d just convert them to externals and back sentimental things up. Sticker em & all like old VHS tapes.
It depends on your city, if you want to put them out on the appropriate garbage day.
The last time we did this, I opened them up, got the cool coffee cup coasters out from inside, the electronics went into non-burnable, and put the rest of the metal parts out on metal day.
Assuming the drives are encrypted, already overwritten or you don’t care, you can sell them for super cheap on Mericari, etc. (I don’t know why anyone wants my HDDs from 2008, but there are people will buy them for … the magnets maybe?)