Comment on Disposing of failed HDDs
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.