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Watch a recycling machine shake apart old hard drives to recover components
A company called Garner Products has invented a machine that can shake traditional hard drives apart to help recover useful components. The DiskMantler can seemingly dismantle an HDD in as little as eight seconds.
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. This machine (spotted by Ars Technica) uses a mix of shock, harmonics and vibration to shake apart a hard drive. However, if the company can help to retrieve valuable components such as rare-earth magnets without having to break them down into elements and starting the production process over, that surely has to be a net positive.
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