kaktuspalme The disks are still usable afterwards, so if anyone picks it out of the electronic waste, I'm ok with that.
I consider myself a very generous person to all my brothers and sisters on this earth ..but I never considered the gift of hard drives. A hard drive I consider as intimate as a polaroid photograph. My life, my place in the world, my feelings, my writing, poems, letters, business...all existed on these disks.
I'd rather drill gigantic holes in the platters then give them away.