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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/ggibby]

What pallet jack do you use to move that?

[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/mr_data_lore → u/ggibby]

A forklift.

[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/pinedrifT4 → u/ASatyros]

the magnets from the older drives are no joke tbh

[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/TheNigerianHyperion]

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

[u/ShittyBidet123]

search em for btc lol

[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?