WD Touts New Hard Drive Recycling Process As 'Blueprint' for Domestic Reuse Mining old hard drives for rare earth elements could facilitate 'large-scale, domestic recycling,' and ease US reliance on ...
Western Digital says it's created an initiative to retrieve rare earth metals from hard drives that are being cycled out of data centers. The tech company, best known for its digital storage products, ...
Most consumers are guilty of filling drawers or closets with devices such as old laptops, phones and other electronics once ...
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 ...
Garner Products, Roseville, California, has announced that its DiskMantler has won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement (E-SCRAP) Prize for its approach to hard ...
I had a conversation with a coworker this week about an interesting situation with her elderly father's old computer. His computer ran Windows 7, and while it no longer works, when it did work her ...
PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Western Digital has developed a way to mine old ...