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I like to hammer a big ass nail through dead HDDs.
That or absolutely trash them with a sledgehammer.
You're not pulling data off a maraca full of glass platter shards.
Open them up. Free magnet.
I have a chunk the size of baseball. Some are the old school magnets that will jump across the table and give you a blood blister. Because that's happened 4 times in the last 25 years.
Mr. Robot taught me you just need to microwave everything.
Might fuck your microwave up though, no?
If you open them, the disk platters make nice if possibly slightly toxic coasters.
What?! They're perfectly safe, got pic of my toddler daughter chewing on one. She turned out slightly autismo, whatever. (All of the above facts are true.)
She ate the Bitcoins 😭
For personal ones I just sell them to recyclers with other old computer parts.