Why do people sell hard drives on EBAY with all the data still present?
Is it just the normal thing to do?
Do they even care?
Do they even realise?
Is it just the normal thing to do?
Do they even care?
Do they even realise?
Hard Drive sales on EBAY?
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I think more people view a computer like a car. It's a device that does a thing, and when they don't give much thought to how it works inside or how they need to maintain it or dispose of it.
Or I suppose someone died and the person looking after the estate didn't know how to properly dispose of the hardware.
That's why I've got a 6" diameter ball of computer hard drive magnets. Since the 80's, family and friends have disposed of their old computers by letting me wipe and repurpose them to someone new. Part of that process has involved the destruction of many hard drives... resulting in a magnet collection. 
