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  • Warrantied drives still fail, they just happen to ship you a replacement.

    Commercial drive trashing solutions are basically a smaller, fancier version of the mechanism in a log splitter.
    You could probably rig a sketchy drive wedge/bending thing with a pump jack rather easily.
    Wear PPE.

    The odds of someone taking a failed drive and transplanting the platters to a working drive is pretty low to begin with.

    Me? I don’t have tons of drives to destroy, so I just unscrew the thing, get the platters out and smash those.














  • Reddit has been actively hostile for a while.

    Here?
    On one hand, it’s a smaller place, so there’s less content to browse…
    On the other hand, it’s a smaller place so you can reply to an older thread and still have interaction with people.

    On reddit, if I replied to a thread that was 1h old, it was like sending a message in a bottle, floating in an endless sea where none would find it or shouting in the void.

    Anyway, welcome home / make it your home.
    Peace