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Those old hard drives in your out-of-date computers don't have to go to the junkyard. These projects put them to good use throughout the home.

How to Destroy Your Old Hard Drive It's not enough to erase old hard drives when their useful lives are through. You must break them.

An old hard drive will only fetch a fraction of its purchase price if you try to sell it, but it still can have some value to you if you keep it around. According to a Google study on hard drive ...

It’s called Ceylon, and it’s effectively a turntable controller built from an old hard drive.

Click to viewSo you finally replaced that overstuffed 80GB hard drive with a half-terabyte data warehouse. The question is, what do you do with the old drive? Stick it on a shelf? Toss it in the ...

Optical hard drives are quickly becoming obsolete. If you need to securely dispose of old memories, here's how to destroy an old hard drive.

Universal Serial Bus has been the de facto standard for sending information to and from computer peripherals for almost two decades, but despite the word “universal” in the name this wa… ...

Even when an old computer won’t start up anymore, the hard drive is still in there. From financial data to private photos, that drive could hold all sorts of private information.

You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. (Jim Rossman ...

I have an old Amiga with a 25-year-old drive that hasn't given me any trouble as well as various drives from the 2000s that are all still fine.