23 Nov
2011
23 Nov
'11
10:25 a.m.
Alexey Toptygin [alexeyt at freeshell.org] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
> But I prefer a hammer. A much more tactile (and satisfying) way of
> ensuring a bricked HDD doesn't find its way back into my spares
> pile... Plus it puts ruddy great dents on most sides, thus making it
> damn obvious that the HDA and PCB are completely buggered.
Someone I know on facebook posted photos the other day of a disk
he shot (with a handgun).
I like to take them apart and salvage bits like the
screws, spindle
motor, magnets, platters and head assembly (the screws have a
practical use, the others are for decorating the house with and/or
art projects).
I like to keep the magnets. I've not found a use for the spindle
motor: can you actually run it without the drive electronics?
CD/DVD/FDD motors seem better for that.
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org