[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 22 Aug, Frank Scott wrote:
> 

> 
> Well most of the many drives I've taken apart have aluminium alloy platters with some 
> sort ferromagnetic coating.

   I occasionally get a drive which is really dead, and have found that the
platters make excellent tough mirrors, while the head movement relies on a
very powerful flat magnet, useful for retaining papers in odd places. I have
even used a magnet to mark a safe place to drill through a ceiling, with a
compass to search for the magnet from below.

-- 
Chris Bell


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