Thanks stan1! You have a good point.Why? Destroy them, no reason to keep them around your home or burden your heirs with a stack of useless drilled and hammered drives when you pass on (or need them to move you to assisted living or a nursing home).I probably have 10 or so. Some of them I've drilled holes and hammered the connectors.
I plan to keep them all indefinitely.
Why destroy them? With Microsoft operating systems, I don't have confidence in other methods.
When I worked in information tech, I did the same thing with maybe a couple hundred drives. Before I retired, a guy in the machine shop quartered them all with an industrial band saw. Then we sent them to a company that shredded them.
With my personal drives, they'll likely go to the local electronic waste collection drop-off long before my survivors have to worry with it. I could warm up to leaving survivors a clean slate.
Bottom line: No data loss from old hard drives.
I probably should turn on Bitlocker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker on my computers to cover my active drives.
Apple probably has something comparable. I'm less worried about losing data with Apple products.
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