Scrapping hard drives

**easyrecycle** · 09-19-2011, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by KC-SF

I wish I could flip these drives. They belonged to a company that operates several internet server farms with about 300 servers per location. Their drive arrays reject about 50 drives a week. The drives probably could be repaired and re-certified, but they still contain client data and they don’t want to risk putting a repaired drive back into service. I have to scrap & certify that the drives are destroyed, and produce a weekly scrap report. I just picked these people up and if all goes well, they’ll give me everything they need to get rid of for free from now on.

The drives would not be repaired. That would be for scrap drives. But to make sure on your paper work you can damage the drives beyond use by hitting the back of each one on top of the motor. What this will do is "push" the motor onto the hard drive disks and bend them out of shape. Once they are bent there is no fixing them. The disk and the data are gone for ever.

So you can "flip" the drives..just use a hammer and give them a good hit on the back until you see that motor "push" in an box it up and move onto the next one.

**parrothead** · 09-19-2011, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

The drives would not be repaired. That would be for scrap drives. But to make sure on your paper work you can damage the drives beyond use by hitting the back of each one on top of the motor. What this will do is "push" the motor onto the hard drive disks and bend them out of shape. Once they are bent there is no fixing them. The disk and the data are gone for ever.

So you can "flip" the drives..just use a hammer and give them a good hit on the back until you see that motor "push" in an box it up and move onto the next one.

It doesn't just bend them, it breaks them. The platters shatter really easy.