Any reason to not scrub and recycle all my <= 2TB 3.5" SATA spinners? I generally keep old hardware forever but just can't imagine me ever using any of those again.

Ended up with this pile of drive e-waste. Hope Best Buy still has a drop off.

@paul If they aren’t broken, why not just give them away?

@ijk64 @paul Mil-spec erasure is bonkers; one overwrite is enough.

@frumble @paul ha-ha yeah - we once had someone try doing that on a production SAN, grinding everything to a halt (backplanes saturated) and took out 3 government dept SAP systems for a few hours until they worked it out.

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