I use a place on the web called Freecycle. Basically, people post stuff they don't want anymore and other people say they want it and go pick it up. You get rid of stuff you no longer want/need and you don't have to deal with the guilt of simply throwing it out. There are people out there who want it. I posted on our local freecycle board that I was looking for old dead hard drives to harvest the magnets. I'm working on building a generator based n the wood 103 on www.otherpower.com (I think I already mentioned this once...). Unfortunately I ended up with one dead hard drive. That means I'll have to wait to work on the genrator.