Originally Posted by Capetonian
When the time finally comes I will smash it to bits and steal its magnet!!
I quite enjoy banging up my old hard drives with an axe. They are surprisingly strong buggers!
Originally Posted by BOAC
You could leave it in place and use it for backups?
I always have my backups going on to a second drive in the machine JIC the main drive carks it unexpectedly. And yes, I also have an "out of the machine" backup as well.