Disassembling hard drives - worth it?

Originally Posted by bejak

I would be careful selling platters on ebay, unless the disk has been wiped clean or made unusable any info written on the disk is still there. Tech savy people with unscrupulous intentions could very easily get whatevers on the disk.
I break them down, not because its profitable it assures the customer and myself that data is not passed on. Besides that we do not know what some people have done with their computers, would really s**k to get accused of something we did not have anything to do with.

Mine go through a degausser. They are fully demagnetized.