Okay, that’s pretty sweet. Imma have to look into that, i know a guy who just retired a server with like 10+ old HDDs
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Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WD has a recycling deal where you can get 15% off your total purchase, once per quarter, by sending in any drive, working or not, to their recycling partner. I just did this with an old Maxtor 60gb 3.5” PATA drive. The shipping is free and it gets processed really quickly (e.g. it was actually delivered today and i already received -and-used- the discount code.
Note that theyre pretty cleat/strict about no stacking of codes.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That’s good to know omg
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Cool! I have some old drives laying around because I didn’t know how to recycle them.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A good smack with a hammer then trash like any other electronic.
or
Disassemble the drive, crack/scratch the platters, trash like any other electronic
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s not recycling.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
In Germany we don’t really have the concept of landfills.
Here usually everything is recycled to some degree.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The magnets in HDDs are some of the strongest magnets you can find. I rip those out when I can, but I’m a packrat
Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fyi, i -did- dissasemble the drive, remove the magnets from the head assembly, and scratched tf out of both sides of the platters. :)
Also, re the price, with the discount i paid the same for the drive i ordered that i paid for the same size/model last BF, although this one had twice the cache. :) :)