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Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday?
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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 clear/strict about no stacking of codes/discounts.
Cool! I have some old drives laying around because I didn't know how to recycle them.
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
That's not recycling.
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
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. :) :)
Okay, that's pretty sweet. Imma have to look into that, i know a guy who just retired a home server with like 10+ old HDDs