DBAN rocks. I just spent the day with a spare laptop wiping 7 old IDE hard disks. I don't know how, but I've ended up with 15 spare hard disks in addition to the 8 I have in use. Well, today was cleanup day for my office, and I really don't need 7 IDE HDDs averaging 20GB in size.

The question I have for you fine folks, though: what do I do with them? What should I do with these drives? I don't want to throw them away, since I'm sure that's hardly environmentally friendly. Do I recycle them at places that take full computers? I wonder if Best Buy takes just hard drives.

By the way, I have a good organizational tip for you guys. I bought an over-the-door shoe organizer for the back of my office door. Instead of shoes, it holds various types of cables and other stuff I might want to be able to grab at any given point. It beats the 30 gallon plastic bin that they were creating a rat's nest in up to today. Now they have velcro ties wrapping them up and they're all organized into the shoe holder.