I never sell old hard drives. I probably have 25 of them laying around everything from 115 megs to 4 gigs. I use them for book-stops and various other geek uses. After all the 1.6 gig Maxtor I paid a $1000.00 dollars for not so many years ago sits on my desk and arouses interesting conversations on technology and where we have been and the possibilities of where we are going.
Anyway a couple of researches bought a 150 used drives thru the web. I am not surprised what they found as many people did not even do a basic slick of the drive let alone a multi-read-write clean of the drive. What they pulled off those hard-drives probably would make for very interesting reading.
So before you sell and old drive think about what was on it and what could still be on it. It might be a better idea to take a hammer to it and toss it in the trash less your life story be in someone else’s computer. [ZDNet]