Help with trashed Seagate 1TB drive, pls? TIA! - Page 3

eoseef · November 15th, 2013, 08:10 AM

Take them apart and grab the magnets.Very strong.

**DTravel** · November 16th, 2013, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by buttsie

If you do your due diligence about old computers and whose buyng the precious metals you'll find all too often they pay nothing or may charge to pick them up from your doorstep.

On one forum a guy asked the question about 8 computers he had just picked up

Dissect and extract the precious metals?

Everyone said spare parts even an ex-worker who worked for a firm who broke up old PC boards said we pay nothing because business is the real driver of this industry.We take their dead or redundant PCs and save them money.

Apparently this whole industry kicked off big time around the 2008 financial recession

Unless you know someone or some business who pays the metals angle is a time waster

Spare parts on the otherhand has ahuge market given many dont wish to upgrade their old clunker of a PC...some parts might be as rare as gold if sold on ebay etc

Well before 2008. Back before the turn of the millennium I was part of an effort to start a non-profit organization to take discarded computers, refurbish them and place them in schools, libraries and such. The only funding we had was what we got from the scrap yard for the unusable computer components.

**gmcbee** · November 16th, 2013, 06:36 AM

I have 3 pentium II's laying around, not even schools or libraries will take them for free. Up until a few years ago, I still had my first computer, a working Commodore 128 with an 80 column monitor, a tape drive, and *gasp* an external disk drive that I paid out the nose for. I even had word processing software (Paperclip) and spreadsheet software, I can't remember the name of that one.

Oh yeah, and a daisy wheel printer with a bunch of different font wheels. You had to pause the print process and change wheels to print italics or subscript or superscript.

I called a computer museum to try and dump the C128, but he said "Buddy, I've got 9 of 'em already."

**gmcbee** · November 16th, 2013, 09:09 AM

...but... we're getting off topic, here, no thanks to me.

Prayers and a hominy, hominy, hominy for the drive in question.
I beat it viciously and repeatedly with a large hammer and flung the largest remnants at a communal bin.

Didn't want to mess with fire or acid, those days are behind me now. I hope you understand.

~~bigbobnobody~~ · November 16th, 2013, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by gmcbee

....Didn't want to mess with fire or acid, those days are behind me now. I hope you understand.

this is the point where we all raise a lit Bic lighter right?

**gmcbee** · November 16th, 2013, 05:05 PM

We *ARE* old. These days, kids use cell phones at concerts. There's even a bic lighter app, no 5h1t!

bazcom · November 22nd, 2013, 12:30 PM

The best way to avoid losing data on a hard drive is to share it.

I recently lost one terabyte, but I like to think that if only I would have shared more, then there would have been more copies of it in the virtual world.

Don't get too excited though. It was one terabyte of mostly maths and physics videos.

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November 15th, 2013, 08:10 AM	#21
eoseef Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1 Thanks: 1,387 Thanked 7 Times in 1 Post	Take them apart and grab the magnets.Very strong.

November 16th, 2013, 06:36 AM	#23
gmcbee Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clinging to the rim of a crater on the dark side of Uranus. Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 11,051 Times in 1,042 Posts	I have 3 pentium II's laying around, not even schools or libraries will take them for free. Up until a few years ago, I still had my first computer, a working Commodore 128 with an 80 column monitor, a tape drive, and gasp an external disk drive that I paid out the nose for. I even had word processing software (Paperclip) and spreadsheet software, I can't remember the name of that one. Oh yeah, and a daisy wheel printer with a bunch of different font wheels. You had to pause the print process and change wheels to print italics or subscript or superscript. I called a computer museum to try and dump the C128, but he said "Buddy, I've got 9 of 'em already."

November 16th, 2013, 09:09 AM	#24
gmcbee Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clinging to the rim of a crater on the dark side of Uranus. Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 11,051 Times in 1,042 Posts	...but... we're getting off topic, here, no thanks to me. Prayers and a hominy, hominy, hominy for the drive in question. I beat it viciously and repeatedly with a large hammer and flung the largest remnants at a communal bin. Didn't want to mess with fire or acid, those days are behind me now. I hope you understand.

November 16th, 2013, 05:05 PM	#26
gmcbee Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clinging to the rim of a crater on the dark side of Uranus. Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 11,051 Times in 1,042 Posts	We ARE old. These days, kids use cell phones at concerts. There's even a bic lighter app, no 5h1t!