I can't say it would or won't, I know that your computer runs faster when it is cool
recycle,destroy, or burn it completely. Destroy the hard drives with a hammer.
Encrypt the contents and either wipe or destroy them when you dispose of them
The top four brands of 1TB Hard Drives are amongst others Western Digital hard drives, Seagate hard drives, Toshiba hard drives, and Hitachi hard drives.
Hard disk drives
How are Hard drives indentified and what are their functions
To recycle an external hard drive you must take the hard drive to an appropriate site. Certain businesses such as computer stores will offer services to destroy and dispose of the hard drives for a small fee.
Mac laptops may likely have solid state drives (not hard drives). Those drives are 2.5" form factor and can be replaced by hard drives.
Today's computer forensics allow for data to be recovered from hard drives even after they have been erased and written over. To fully insure that corporate secrets are not made available to competitors, the best safety is to physically destroy the hard drive.
Hard drives last for many years
There are tons of kinds of drives. Floppy Disk Drives, CD-ROM drives, PATA Hard drives, zip drives, flash drives, DVD drives, SATA hard drives.... The list could go on and on and on...
Simpletech produce portable external hard drives. These range from small USB sticks, to larger external hard drives. Simpletech also produces mini versions of the portable hard drives
They store digital information in a relativly permenent form. Some hard drives called 'Hard Disc Drives' store data magnetically on a metal disc. Newer hard drives called 'Solid State Drives' store data electronically on flash memory.