Getting rid of some personal computers - where do I go for this? I live next to a little mom-and-pop tech shop that says they can clean the computer for $25 and then they recycle it. Do I trust this?

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Google how to remove it from your computer. Should be no more than 4-6 screws on your computer. Than take a drill to it. Haha. It’s a good time. Drill through it a couple of times, get some aggression out, and call it a day

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Once you destroy the hard drive, definitely recycle the rest! If nothing else, I’m fairly sure you can drop it off for free recycling at a Best Buy, but I’m always a big fan of supporting local business, so I say give it to the mom and pop shop. But whatever you do, please recycle it!!

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Best Buy will recycle for free

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If they recycle it.. shouldn’t they be paying you something instead?

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Yeah good point. He said they shred the hard drives but probably keep the other parts I'm guessing

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Hard drive + sledge hammer + some good rap music = fun recreation of office space printer scene.

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You need a drill for the old 3.5 drives - hammer will not adequately destroy the platters. For a newer drive, just snap the chip in half

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Ah, interesting thanks. I've honestly never looked for the hard drive but I'm guessing it won't be too hard to spot.

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Ya I wouldn't pay for that, I bet a quick Google search will show you where the drive is located, a hammer will work as well and you don't even need to remove them

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Definitely not. If it is a spinning disk you are going to break the disk with a hammer. Either work just fine. If ssd I make sure to dent the primary read and 4 dents over the nods

Haha thanks all, I guess I'll be buying a drill this weekend

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I literally just did this to a really old MacBook I found. Just took my drill and turned that baby into Swiss Mac and cheese. It was very satisfying. Have fun

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👍 I'll look for that thanks

Get a bootable DOD level erase program (multiple overwrites with different patterns) and nuke all the drives in place. Recycle the computer afterwards with no worries. If you’re worried about NSA recovering your data then by all send chop up the disks

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I mean it's just normal stuff. But I don't like feeling that somebody could be looking at my documents, taxes, family pictures

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They said that they shredded the hard drive after they clean it. There was a lot of sensitive data on there and I just feel hesitant to trust that it will be shredded. Anyone have any experience or advice? Thank you!

I get the hesitation. Take the hard drive to a drill yourself. Just in case.

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What is all this sensitive data you are storing??

Follow up question here - how do I do this to phones, is it just the data chip?

Phones are harder, factor resets should work if you want to resell the phone. if recycling then again I suggest the hammer approach.

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