what do you do with a broken hard drive?

[solarbird]

I had already queued this post for today, back on Monday. Intel’s announcement on Tuesday – see previous post – made it even more appropriate.

♪ What do you do with a broken hard drive? ♪
♪ What do you do with a broken hard drive? ♪
♪ What do you do with a broken hard drive, ♪
♪ once it eats your data? ♪

Well, thanks to Boris L. on Facebook, I know know that you can turn it into a microphone. I don’t even know what to think about that. XD

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Comments

[angelwolfgeek]

Broken hard drives are salvage *gold*, if you can get the damned case open. IIRC the spindle is a high speed stepper motor, and they power up as long as you got the drive controller, super strong magnets...

Almost as fun as dead headphones ;p

[solarbird]

Getting the cases open is easy. But yeah, you have a good point about the magnets.

What's in dead headphones? Other than magnets that in my experience aren't that great.

[angelwolfgeek]

The magnets in over the year headphones are a bit more usefully shaped. I have one holding our dryer shut along with a piece of perforated steel sheet. If only we could get a replacement replacement belt for it... ;p