Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday?

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A good smack with a hammer then trash like any other electronic.
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  Disassemble the drive, crack/scratch the platters, trash like any other electronic

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not recycling.

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    • 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.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s pretty awesome!

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  • 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

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    • 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. :) :)

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