I’m finally upgrading to a 1 TB SSD and i’m not sure what to do with the ol’ HDD. some say they convert theirs into an external drive which sounds easy enough, but are there other potential projects?

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    1 year ago

    Secure wipe and donate, or drill through and dispose of

    Ever since I had a defective and still under warranty 4TB drive with private data on it that was still readable (albeit very slowly) but not writable, I started to encrypt my drives. This way I don’t have to think about it if in the future I want to RMA, donate or trash it.

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      1 year ago

      Good tip! I also encrypt all my drives - systems won’t even boot without a password.

      Come to think about it, I haven’t taken a drill to any recent drive, but did a few phones and old tablets.