does breaking the hard drives affect the scrap value?

Originally Posted by AJR

... and sell the boards separate to another ewaste recycler - HD boards are around $10-$11/lb. But like the others said, it doesn't decrease the value. Most of us need to do some sort of breaking/destruction of the drive to assure non-recovery of data.

Yeah exactly what i mean there could be credit card numbers on that drive and could lead to identity theft.

Yeah i have not though of that

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

run the disks thru a heavy duty paper shredder. Then you can sell the pieces by the shoebox full.