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[–] Flixich@feddit.de 87 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

You joke but early 90s we had exactly this with magneto optical drives

[–] nis@feddit.dk 10 points 11 months ago

Ah yes. The famous write-only backup solution :D

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 31 points 11 months ago

I made a wind chime once that I really loved. Had to dirty the plates because they could catch the sun well enough to vaporize your retinas

[–] Werbert@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

I made a DRAM catcher once.

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago

I heard they keep data corruption away.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?

[–] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?

[–] surfrock66@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Fair, my home office is a monument to too much free time, a hoarding habit for ewaste, and a wife who works weekends and overnights.

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[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:

[–] surfrock66@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's rad, and you did an amazing job keeping them whole. Recently I have been wrapping them in cloth, then the kids form clay around them for various fridge and office magnets.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's a good idea. Yeah, the trick I discovered in getting them off the mounting bracket without the chrome plating peeling is to grab each end of the bracket with vice grips and/or pliers (after you unscrew it from the drive) and just bend it down and away from the magnet. They usually come off in one piece that way, too.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 30 points 11 months ago

No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)

[–] eldritch_horror@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just the magnets. They are very nice magnets.

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[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude's the Predator of the IT world

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago
[–] einlander@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

That's a funny looking Stanley cup.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago
[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

No, because I am worried the NSA may try to collate data from them. In fact, I zero-wipe, drill bit the drives in the platters and the PCB, and drop them off at e-waste for recycling.

[–] Yantantethera@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I use them as coffee mats...

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

I do that with save icons!

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[–] oDDmON@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.

Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you wind a 2 or 3 layer pancake coil the size of the platter out of 12 or 14AWG magnet wire and dump a couple kJ through it from a capacitor bank, the platter will launch into the air. Don't try it indoors unless you want a platter embedded in the ceiling.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Zombie apocalypse DIY railgun

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And here I thought I had a lot of hdd platter coaster's.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I don't have the space to hoard garbage.

[–] OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Holy crap. I don’t, but after seeing that I think I’ll need to start

[–] ponchow8NC@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Curious about the age of the oldest one

[–] surfrock66@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I started collecting in probably 2007, so manufactured before that for sure.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

That's funny, that's exactly the method I stored my cdRoms back in the day.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

... I didn't but I guess I could start?

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My daughters drawings are held on my fridge with old HDD magnets.

[–] Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

Nope, but now I wish i did

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I will keep the magnets if I ever get into this in the future, but not the platters. I'll just safely destroy them and dispose of them.

So far I only had 3 laptops and no desktops. I had 0 HDD failures, since I only ever had 3 of them so far.
The oldest one is more than 17 years old 80GB 2.5" Fujitsu HDD.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

The magnets are fantastic for tool mounts since they’re so strong

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[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would take those and the adhesive rubber feet that you would get with switches and make coasters out of them to give away.

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[–] stagen@feddit.dk 7 points 11 months ago

I keep the magnets, but I shred the platters. 'cause magnets are cool.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

I do that to my dead drives, but I’ve only had one fail that wasn’t an SSD. Moreso because the washers that separate the platters have a very satisfying ring to them that makes me keep them as a fidget toy.

I use the magnets to hold screws, it works great for that.

Unfortunately, SSDs have less interesting parts, so I just take them apart to destroy the chips after failure

[–] CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Every time, without fail, though I haven't decided what I want to do with them yet.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

A common public toilet till machine has a keyhole that looks like a coin slot. Turns out, HDD magnets are the perfect shape to fish out any coins mistakenly thrown in there.

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[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to make clocks with the platters and give them to friends and family. Michael's used to sell inexpensive clock mechanisms that looked really cool against the platter background. I haven't seen them lately, but I'm sure someone sells them online.

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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

Platters make good coasters

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