Originally Posted by msearl3244
We use an arbor press with a solid spike that goes down through the center of the hard drive. This leaves the board intact. This has met any standards that our customers have requested. This has held true from manufacturing companies to Schools and Hospitals. With the one we use, we can do up to 4 drives at a time, although 3 is much easier. Arbor presses are really inexpensive. I had the opportunity to buy a large one on GovDeals, but the standard presses work fine. Actually the standard presses are much easier to take to a location with you. The spike can just be made out of a large chisel. we welded a sort of a open box to the base of our that you put the drives in. All this does is stop the drives from going up when you retract the press and leaves the drives on the base. Even without the box you can just push the drives off of the spike with your hands. If that does not work for you, you can tap them off with a hammer.
Arbor presses are available in a lot of places. They are generally very inexpensive and look professional. I will post a pic of one here so you know what they look like.
This is not the only solution. It is just the solution that works for me. The drilling them would not work for me because it was way to messy at my customers locations.
I also have tasked the local community college engineering department with building me a degaussing machine using electromagnetic field. They are building it for the cost of materials and the experience of learning how to build something useful and unusual.
If that's your son or nephew i apologize now. But How DAM! It's summer time and that boy is white! Get him out in the sun stat!
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