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Silly question perhaps, but what about just securely wiping the drive and then recycling it? Like in the 9 pass - military grade, or whatever it’s called - formatting option. Less fun and it takes some time, but a lot easier. Wouldn’t that be enough?
@WayneG wow, reading Ronald Wayne’s Wikipedia entry
After leaving Apple, Wayne resisted Jobs’s attempts to get him to return
Steve Jobs approached him again as a business contact for Apple, but Wayne refused
In the early 1990s, Wayne sold the original Apple partnership contract paper, signed in 1976 by Jobs, Wozniak, and himself, for US$500.
In 2011, the contract was sold at auction for $1.6 million.
Well, at least in the OP’s case, none of the drives would spin up when connected to a computer. That kind of leaves physical destruction as the only option.
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In absence of a sledgehammer, a garden tamper works great. Put the drive vertically near a hard surface and swing the tamper like a pendulum, so the corner hits the drive. Punches through the outer case with ease.
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At this point I think I’m going to use it as an excuse to buy a BFH. Compared to the cost of drive disposal, a nice mini-sledge is cheap. 
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