{"id":4794,"date":"2024-04-16T04:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/watch-a-recycling-machine-shake-apart-old-hard-drives-to-recover-components-163442500\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T04:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:16:21","slug":"watch-a-recycling-machine-shake-apart-old-hard-drives-to-recover-components-163442500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/watch-a-recycling-machine-shake-apart-old-hard-drives-to-recover-components-163442500\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a recycling machine shake apart old hard drives to recover components"},"content":{"rendered":"
Traditional hard drives typically contain useful components. But dismantling them manually would be too labor-intensive. As things stand, old hard drives tend to go through a shredder and it’s often down to luck whether there’s anything usable left after that process. A company called Garner Products claims to have a better solution with its DiskMantler.<\/p>\n
This machine (spotted by Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>) uses a mix of shock, harmonics and vibration to shake apart a hard drive. The process loosens screws and other fasteners \u2014 no matter what kind of oddly shaped screw heads<\/ins><\/a> are used \u2014 to free up parts like circuit boards, drive assemblies, actuators and rare-earth magnets. The process reportedly takes between eight and 90 seconds for most hard drives, and around two minutes for welded helium drives.<\/p>\n