Really off topic

[Richard Kreiss]

I have been accumulation mechanical hard drive for a number of years from my own computers as well as from neighbors who have given me their old computers.  In most cases the install hard drive was reformatted and a legal OS installed.

In other cases the computers we canalized for parts.  Recently I decided I should get rid of most of these drives as they were too old and their capacity was inadequate.   I took the drive apart for 2 reasons.   One was to make the platters unreadable and the other was to remove the magnets which move the head.  These are very powerful and can be very handy.

AS I disassembled these drive I noted the change in the platter thickness and the number of platters in the drive.  A Compaq (Fujitsu) 2TB drive had 5 platters which were very thin.  I was able to easily bend them and then compressed them with my vice.  This did two things. 1. Pushed the bent sides together and flattened everything.  2. Put teeth marks on the platter surfaces making them unreadable if one tried to open the drive platter.

By the way, if you want to attempt this, you will need to have Torx, star and phillips head drivers.  The Torx and Star bits needed are in the 1-5 size range.  I would suggest having a small container available to put the screws into after removal.

I do not recommend doing this on a drive or drives you plan to use or are using.

Richard Kreiss

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