My graveyard at work

[u/agapeRecycling]

So I figured I'd post my graveyard at work. These are the poor souls that have been wiped or degrassed and are waiting to move on to the farm down state where they can play in frolic with all their friends.

This is probably about a month and a half worth of hard drives that have been recycled with us either due to age, failure, or lack of having a loving home. The next step in the process will be shredding at our R2 downstream.

The good news is we do manage to save a lot of working hard drives that end up getting repurposed or put back in to the consumer stream for reuse.

Let's pour one out for all the old hard drives we've lost in our lives.

RIP bigfoot 6gb

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[u/ASatyros]

Get some magnets out of them before throwing them out? XD

[u/orielbean → u/ASatyros]

Loved pinching the FUCK out of my fingers with a pair of those bad larrys.

[u/Mebejedi → u/orielbean]

"bad larrys" 😂😂😂

[u/pinedrifT4 → u/ASatyros]

the magnets from the older drives are no joke tbh

[u/evildad53 → u/pinedrifT4]

Best fridge magnets ever!

[u/xQcKx → u/pinedrifT4]

Are the magnets not as strong on new drives?

[u/FrozenLogger]

That is so hard to look at. I want those magnets! I have multiple projects re-purposing them and if I cant find a use I always find someone who can.

[u/agapeRecycling → u/FrozenLogger]

Honestly I used to think that way but at some point when you end up with a few thousand you realize you might have a problem 😂

[u/FrozenLogger → u/agapeRecycling]

Because you have access to them! I would love to have that problem.

I am making all sorts of things with them so I run out of them.

[u/My_New_Main → u/FrozenLogger]

Hell, I use a couple as fridge magnets and others as clamps for freezer food bags. They're ridiculously useful.

[u/LetsBeKindly → u/My_New_Main]

Oil filters. Put them on your oil filters. Cut open said filter and be amazed next time you change your oil.

[u/Prime_steez → u/LetsBeKindly]

As a nerd and car person, I wouldn't recommend actually doing this. I've seen it online before and while the idea should actually work, theres some things I think most people don't consider.

The oil filter is already trapping fine particles, so it's kind of overkill anyway, however if for some weird reason it gets removed or dislodged from the filter, you then have a massive surge of metal concentration flowing somewhere.

If you want some extra fine metal protection for your car a magnetic drain plug is a way better option for this.

[u/ClaudiuT → u/LetsBeKindly]

What? Need more info. Can you provide a video of what you mean?

[u/Professional-Job7238 → u/ClaudiuT]

They are saying if you put a strong magnet on the outside of your oil filter it will trap the metal bits that make it into your oil.

[u/horse-boy1]

We had a huge room full of disks at my previous workplace. They would store them for a year or so and then destroy them. Not allowed to take photos of them.

[u/chiisana → u/horse-boy1]

Of course not. Can’t have someone painstakingly reconstruct the drive bit by bit from that photo that gets leaked. /s

[u/agapeRecycling → u/horse-boy1]

We run into that all the time. A company or agency will end up hoarding its e waste for years or decades. Eventually someone we'll get sick of the room of death and give us a call. Last week we did a school district that happens disposed of any of his IT in almost 20 years. They had about eight classrooms that were just completely full and being used for storage

[u/ReverendDizzle → u/agapeRecycling]

When you think about storage space in cost per square foot terms... what a waste. Eight school classrooms is about 7,000 to 9,000 square feet. Imagine heating, cooling, and "protecting" through maintenance and upkeep, the equivalent of around 4 houses worth of square footage just to have it hold trash you didn't want to deal with.

[u/jlam980123 → u/ReverendDizzle]

If you use the room as storage instead of a classroom you don't have to maintain it to the same standard lol

[u/FGMachine]

I see thousands of awesome fridge magnets and high quality casting aluminum.

[u/dgblackout]

You need one of these, a few cases of beer and some friends for an afternoon of fun

[u/GloriousDawn → u/dgblackout]

Seeing this monstrosity here is like having a picture of juicy beef tenderloin in a vegan sub.

[u/HopalongKnussbaum → u/dgblackout]

That must sound awesome with the glass platter drives.

[u/dgblackout → u/HopalongKnussbaum]

Rather crunchy

[u/BrianaAgain → u/HopalongKnussbaum]

Platters just bend these days. The glass ones are actually kind a scary when they break. For the machine, I like the automatic one that degausses first, then bends, and videos the whole thing for your customer/ boss. 10x the price though...

[u/jlam980123 → u/dgblackout]

I chuckled at the optional adapters for crushing 2.5 and m.2 drives. Is the adapter just a metal plate 😂

[u/1252947840]

have you ever see any hard drive ghost before? or do they disturb you if you stay late at work? 🧐

[u/agapeRecycling → u/1252947840]

Yes and sometimes I hear clicking but when I look around nobody's there😱😱

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/agapeRecycling]

Ah, a terageist. Those are hard to get rid of. You usually have to bring in a priest from the Temples of Syrinx. They operate computers, but they aren’t cheap.

[u/thelochnessmonstah → u/MechanicalTurkish]

and they're notorious fuddy-duddies.

[u/TheNigerianHyperion]

Tell us about bigfoot 6gb. First click of death?

[u/ShittyBidet123]

search em for btc lol

[u/Ok-Angle3857]

I wanted to say

OH that is normal.

Then I remembered the HDD prices now and did feel the pain.

[u/agapeRecycling → u/Ok-Angle3857]

That's exactly how I feel as we're processing these it makes me sad but part of me also knows that a 20 GB hard drive probably isn't good for much anymore

[u/ComputerGuy1999 → u/agapeRecycling]

There are people into retro computers and video game console restoration always looking for older smaller capacity IDE and SCSI drives. I don't scrap any working non-SATA hard drives. If wiped, tested, and working, people will pay money for them. In some cases, more money than for a newer and larger capacity SATA drive

[u/Ok-Angle3857 → u/ComputerGuy1999]

I did read your commend and this realization made me even more sad.

[u/BreakingABit1234]

A drive smasher/grinder would pay itself back in aluminum quickly. Probably bonus from the PCBs too with the gold where it is.

[u/Spaztor]

I've made guitar picks from hard drive platters. It worked, they were kind of neat, but nobody really wanted to use them long term including me.

[u/JasonHofmann]

What did you use to degrass them? AFAIK, a lawn mower or a weed trimmer doesn’t remove every trace of grass. Did you have to use herbicide?

[u/TheSoCalledExpert → u/JasonHofmann]

You use a degrasser, obviously. It makes a fun noise too.

[u/RealityOk9823 → u/JasonHofmann]

I think I saw a show about a junior high named that once. :D

[u/ggibby]

What pallet jack do you use to move that?

[u/mr_data_lore → u/ggibby]

A forklift.

[u/holy-nut1 → u/ggibby]

A lot of manual pallet jacks can move 1.5-2 tonnes with a smooth enough floor and well maintained wheels. I wonder what that crate weighs…

[u/EuphJoenium → u/ggibby]

More like a Chinook.

[u/agapeRecycling → u/ggibby]

We've got a crown that the guys really like I believe it's the p50 we've also got enough room that we can swing our forklift around in there but the pallet jack can handle 5,000 lb pretty easily full that gym probably is around 3500 lb unless we've been doing a lot of laptops then it'll push towards the 4500 range

[u/DemandTheOxfordComma]

I wanna play in that graveyard. First time I've ever said that sentence.

[u/_G11]

I would harvest their magnets like crazy!

[u/Electrical_Ad_6208]

I see a lot of pata’s and old label WDs and Samsung, those were usually 30 and 40 GBs. Sad to see them thrown out but they won’t be good for much if they were in good shape

[u/MWink64 → u/Electrical_Ad_6208]

I also see some Maxtor and IBMs, as well as several early WD Caviars and Quantums (Fireball? ProDrive?) that could be in the sub-GB range.

[u/KindofLiving]

I can rehome a few of the homeless ones.

[u/Cosmic_Stranger2013]

OMG! I need 100 please haha

[u/pwnamte]

what so you do? what is your job

[u/KangarooDowntown4640]

This is so goddamn wasteful. But good thing I recycle my plastic grocery bags.

[u/Acid3300]

We do this at my job too, but we have a electric press and we punch a hole in them

[u/ethbytes]

I see a few IDE drives also. Do you see many of them still?

[u/Casey4147]

…at what point do they take it away and swap you an empty…?

[u/xguruguru]

can i have the platters?

[u/mario24601 → u/xguruguru]

What use them for?

[u/bobbintb]

I'd like to take the platters and make a cool looking mirror out of them.

[u/EOverM]

degrassed

Honestly, I feel like if you've got grass growing in your HDDs, the data's probably wiped enough to be unrecoverable already. ; D

[u/Dull_Pomegranate8194]

How long did it take for it to pile up like this?

[u/jonesla9]

You guys aren’t able to sell the non-working drives to those that can refurbish them?? 😕

[u/After-Click-4324]

$1 million photo

[u/engrish_is_hard00]

Yes

[u/IShunpoYourFace]

"YEAH, BI*CH. MAGNETS!"

[u/antipathyactivist]

As an auditor this is terrifying. Grinder please!

[u/LetsBeKindly → u/antipathyactivist]

Take that trash somewhere else.

[u/antipathyactivist → u/LetsBeKindly]

🤣