I do not turn old drives loose from anything used at home.
Drives get smashed and drilled if they are unusable. Re-purposed ones get at least a couple passes of DBAN before use again. Those typically are used with Linux stuff I toy with.
Maybe I can swing Linux academy this fall.
I was working on an HP laptop that had a finicky CMOS. The hard drive had failed and it wouldn’t accept anything that I tried in it. So I went to ebay and bought an identical drive. Before I installed it I slaved it to another machine. Sure enough - it was complete with personal data, movies, and porn.
I can’t remember how many passes I made on it before I trusted it with any software.
Get a cheap docking station, and keep your hard drives. I have several old hard drives that I still use.