Where to safely dispose of old computer hard drives?

[North_Raleigh_Guy]

Originally Posted by cheapdad00

Just make sure you have no Crypto account information on them (from when coins were worth much less than they are today), lots of stories of people who would have several $100k-$MM in crypto today based on early mining certain coins which were not mainstream 5-10 years ago. Usually the accounts are on a password protected/encrypted drive where person forgot the password.

Ha! I was just reading an article about how 90% of bitcoin has been mined as of today. Don't worry, I am not a scecret millionaire and have never owned any crypto currency, but you make a good point. I have read some of those stories about people who threw away small fortunes. I don't know how they sleep at night! LOL

[Starglow]

Originally Posted by North_Raleigh_Guy

I have a few old and broken computers collecting dust in my garage. They are very old so nothing worth donating. There may be some old banking and family photos on them. Nothing I need to recover, but would also prefer not having my banking info out there to be found and recovered by somebody else. I don't really have the tools to drill into hard drives to destroy them and was wondering what the best and safest option is in Raleigh to dispose of this equipment and make sure my information is destroyed?

If you can burn a CD then you can wipe the drives yourself with DBAN, which is also what Kramden does.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-eras...g-dban-2619148

The Wake County convenience center on Durant Road takes electronics including computers for recycling during the week and on Saturday. There are companies or electronics recyclers that will shred the entire hard drive but not sure that would be feasible if you only have a few drives since they operate on a much larger scale.