“Microsoft leverages robotics and AI to disassemble and recycle
defective hard disks to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025”

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leverages-robotics-and-ai-to-disassemble-and-recycle-defective-hard-disks-to-reach-a-90-reuse-and-recycle-rate-by-2025

"Microsoft aims to use a "NoShred" approach to hit a 90% reuse and
recycle rate of hard drives by 2025."

No used hard drives for me !

Lynn

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> “Microsoft leverages robotics and AI to disassemble and recycle
> defective hard disks to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025”
>
> https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leverages-robotics-and-ai-to-disassemble-and-recycle-defective-hard-disks-to-reach-a-90-reuse-and-recycle-rate-by-2025
>
> "Microsoft aims to use a "NoShred" approach to hit a 90% reuse and
> recycle rate of hard drives by 2025."
>
> No used hard drives for me !

How would you know? If they use old parts and new parts to build a new
HDD, it can be sold as new, not as used, and not refurbished. Refurbish
means to clean, repair, and not make significant changes to a product,
not to rebuild or build anew from salvaged parts. Stop buying anything
Seagate? Except Seagate distributes under other brands (e.g., Maxtor,
LaCie), and they could sell the recovered parts to other drive makers.

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> “Microsoft leverages robotics and AI to disassemble and recycle
>> defective hard disks to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025”
>>
>> https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leverages-robotics-and-ai-to-disassemble-and-recycle-defective-hard-disks-to-reach-a-90-reuse-and-recycle-rate-by-2025
>>
>> "Microsoft aims to use a "NoShred" approach to hit a 90% reuse and
>> recycle rate of hard drives by 2025."
>>
>> No used hard drives for me !
>
> How would you know? If they use old parts and new parts to build a new
> HDD, it can be sold as new, not as used, and not refurbished. Refurbish
> means to clean, repair, and not make significant changes to a product,
> not to rebuild or build anew from salvaged parts. Stop buying anything
> Seagate? Except Seagate distributes under other brands (e.g., Maxtor,
> LaCie), and they could sell the recovered parts to other drive makers.

Oops, don't know why I focused on Seagate. The article talks about
Microsoft using robotic disassembling of HDDs to recycle the parts, not
about them getting into the drive manufacturing process. You won't know
to whom Microsoft sells the salvaged parts. Ever see a
Microsoft-branded HDD?

They're acting the role of a salvage or recycling yard. Someone ELSE
buys from those yards, even smelters. Instead of generating waste in
the dumps with shredded HDDs, some parts of which are bio hazards, they
are going to recycle, but the article doesn't say to WHO they sell the
recycled components.

Do you have another article claiming Microsoft is selling the salvaged
parts to HDD manufacturers, and to which ones?