Finaly. After 2 or so years

**TheRecycleGuy** · 03-10-2017, 09:43 AM

Of picking up now and then computer stuff from a computer service center i got the call to destroy 500 or so desktop hard drives and havent counted laptop hard drives plus some computers. 11 hours in and almost done

**DakotaRog** · 03-10-2017, 11:24 AM

You've been very busy!!

**Tincankeith** · 03-10-2017, 06:19 PM

Are you shreding them or dismantling?

**TheRecycleGuy** · 03-10-2017, 10:34 PM

Dismantled cover. 2lb pointed sledge hammer to the platters

**TheRecycleGuy** · 03-10-2017, 10:38 PM

Counted 275 laptop hdd i smashed

**jimicrk** · 03-11-2017, 01:25 AM

Removing the circuit boards also?

**APA** · 03-11-2017, 07:55 AM

Yes please remove the circuit board on the hard drives and save those.

**mikeinreco** · 03-11-2017, 10:24 AM

the laptop ones are easy.......A good whack and the platter shatters inside the shell........Remove board and sell as HD without board!!!!

**tski72** · 03-13-2017, 02:57 PM

This is a funny subject. At first I was also removing the boards on every hard drive when I first started doing this, then I figured it out that it wasn't all that cost affective. Now, since I have gotten clients that want them destroyed, I have been taking the boards back off and saving them. I'll now save up a paper case box full of them and bring them in. Some yards are picky about crushed or destroyed hard drives without boards, but I take my chances. The hard drive scrap is not cost affective to ship out but the boards are.