[ale] HDD Disposal/Recyling near Sandy Springs?

[Jim Kinney]

+1 wind chimes!!

On January 24, 2021 12:09:41 PM EST, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:58:52AM -0500, Derek Atkins via Ale wrote:
>> Due to their age (over 45000 hours power-on, over 5 years since
>purchase)
>> they are most likely out of warranty.  But I don't want to just toss
>them
>> in the trash if there is a more environmentally friendly way to
>dispose of
>> them.
>
>Well, it's more the "mentally" friendly than "environmentally" but I'm
>a 
>strong proponent of disposing of hard drives by means of a few 
>30-ish-caliber holes.
>
>Or just disassemble them and turn the platters into (very) shiny 
>windchimes...
>
> - Solomon
>-- 
>Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
>                                     @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
>High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)

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