Hard Drive Platter Destruction and Resale

Once you remove the platters off the spindle you have a better chance playing the lottery than recovering the information on those platters. To add to the problem if a smoke particle or one particle of dust were to be on the platter when trying to rebuild and read the disk would crash the head.The heads that read the platter float less than 5 nanometers above the platter. To put this is prospective a single fingerprint has a thickness of over 12,000 nanometers.