I am extremely reluctant to discard / give away / sell used hard disks. Especially when they are partly defective and it's impossible to secure erase them. Still have my first HDs (Western Digital Caviar 420 MB IDE)
I take a lot of satisfaction that the executor of my estate will just have to erase a dozen hard drives and won't have to rent a backhoe to clear out an overflowing storage locker.
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