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unte13
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JAC
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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: What to do with an old hard drive? |
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mwahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahhaah
now that is what the BOFH will do to your hard drive over the weekend if you give him a hard time. |
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Borris70
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superb 
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D.8080
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Spectacular!!
That's not so easy to do, the guy surely must be an engineer!!  |
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bacterio
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what a race!!! lol
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samnmax
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Oh it's quite easy to do... You just have to open the disk and unscrew the platters with the right tools, and then power up with the drive laying horizontal. It makes an infernal racket until the disks catch up speed with the motor. Then slowly incline the disk to the vertical and hit the drive on the side so the platters run free... (Make sure they are spinning in the right direction, you don't want to stop their huge angular momentum with your body )
I tried it with a dead maxtor 60GB 3.5" drive and 5 disk platters from old disks. They spun at 7200 rpm and made lots of noise hitting the wall after being released. |
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Marcin
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wepwawet
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Sorry but I can't laugh about that.
Just imagine people collecting old computer cases and doing jokes while burning their old CPUs - C4004's.
As I am a computer collector as well I also have an old machine using such a big old hard disk.
I'd love to have one in reserve...
Shame on you all!
ok, almost kidding, funny idea but I'd have done this with marked disks, a bell target and sold bets on ebay. |
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Wizzard1
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a monster 5 1/4 "Bigfoot" that could use some of that action |
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doccybrown
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I think those 5-1/4 drives aren`t doing more
than 5400 min^-1 so I will try out a 15k-device. 
/doccy
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D.8080
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| doccybrown wrote: |
I think those 5-1/4 drives aren`t doing more
than 5400 min^-1 so I will try out a 15k-device.
/doccy |
You are pure evil! Don't get the dog in their way... |
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