Hard drives are the storage platters used for storing data on computers, laptops, and other electronic devices. At some point, old computers need to get decommissioned. If you have a computer at your home or have several computers at a business that need to be decommissioned, you are always recommended to delete all the information stored on the computer before dropping your computer at an e-waste recycling center or buyback store. The thing with deleting the data manually is that most of the data can be recovered easily using data recovery software. This puts the stored information on the hard drive at risk, which further leads to phishing and fraud. Therefore, the importance of the right disposal of hard drives and hard drive recycling comes into play. In this post, we will find out how to dispose of a hard drive properly. Physical destruction of storage platters Physical destruction is the most reliable method of hard drive destruction. In this method, the storage platter of