Recycling Your Used Hard Drives A Guide to Data Erasure and Hard Drive Destruction
If you’ve got a bunch of old hard drives on your hands, you’re not alone. As we upgrade from one version of Mac OS to another, or we move from Windows XP to Windows 7, we often have hard drives left over. And while you might be tempted to keep them around in case you need them again someday, the truth is: they’re dangerous and need to be destroyed. 1. How to recycle old hard drives Recycling your computer's old hard drive is an easy way to help the environment. Before throwing away your old hard drive, you'll want to make sure that you have removed any personal data from it. You can use a disk-wiping software to do this, which takes just a few minutes. And after you’re done, you can recycle the hard drive later at a recycling center. 2. The problems with hard drives As a business owner, you can’t afford to lose any data. Here are two common scenarios where hard drives fail: 1) you’re backing up your data and something goes wrong - like the hard drive crashes, or the computer th...