Are hardrives dangerous?!! Help.

[Finster_1]

Hi I smashed my hardrive to get rid of the info but now transparent balls are spilling out. Do I need to dispose of it and how. Is it radioactive or poisonous. Help!!!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

The platter needs to be destroyed.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi I smashed my hardrive to get rid of the info but now transparent balls are spilling out. Do I need to dispose of it and how. Is it radioactive or poisonous. Help!!!

We need to see a picture on this.
There are no "transparent balls" inside a hard drive.

 

[ChaoticWolf]

No, the hard drive won't hurt you, obviously unless it was still plugged into the computer, then probably

I never heard of transparent balls inside of a hard drive, but either way, just dispose the hard drive, it won't hurt you, collect any of the pieces, and just dispose it, if there's a lot of bits of it everywhere and it's smashed, then just dispose it, it's fine

 

[Finster_1]

No, the hard drive won't hurt you, obviously unless it was still plugged into the computer, then probably

I never heard of transparent balls inside of a hard drive, but either way, just dispose the hard drive, it won't hurt you, collect any of the pieces, and just dispose it, if there's a lot of bits of it everywhere and it's smashed, then just dispose it, it's fine

Thanks for the answer. Also looking carefully they were more like metal shavings (they were hard to see as they were really small)