Mining old hard drives for rare earth elements could facilitate 'large-scale, domestic recycling,' and ease US reliance on ...

My hard drive is over ten and a half months old, slightly different from the 8.3 months I calculated. So, this method only gives an estimate which may differ from the actual age. If you've never ...

[Jipa] over at MetkuMods put up an original re-use for old hard drives: make em into power tools. The tiny servo motor that drives the spindle doesn’t generate much torque, but once the drive is ...

So you’ve just taken apart a hard drive, and you’re looking at all the pieces on your desktop. You’re somehow compelled to use them all in different projects. Why not pull out that very high ...

If your old PC or laptop hard drive still works properly, you can convert it into a portable drive by removing it from its casing and putting it into a new shell. First, figure out the hard drive ...

Since it’s easy to recover data from a hard drive and open yourself up to bullying, blackmail, or even identity theft, it is vital to dispose of an old hard drive properly by not only wiping the ...

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Old hard drives can be repurposed as additional storage in newer systems, or even transformed into creative modding projects with a few extra pieces and a bit of soldering, and then there's this.

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Western Digital has developed a way to mine old hard drives for rare earth elements, which promises to ease the tech industry’s dependence on carbon-heavy mining. A Western Digital white paper ...