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Macabre.
Yet also (bitter-)sweet, those drives gave everything they had for you, it's only right to honor their memory & remember them.
I just open the drives & put them on shelves.
There's always exactly one screw that won't let go and I end up stripping it beyond hope, so I rarely get the platters out. I only want (need!) the magnets anyway!
Drill it
I thought you made a custom thermos bottle at first
Same.
I used to collect AOL cds. I had a stack a few feet high. I was going to make some sort of artwork out of them.
I have like 30 old hard drives laying around and have been thinking about doing a cool art installation with them for a while.
Maybe shatter the platters to create a spiky landscape and epoxy them in, or something like that.
Any ideas?
As more of an artist than a techie for the most part — if you have your medium or at least part of it — the more interesting thing about art is what you have to say about it.
As an example, if you want to draw a distinction and comparison between the age of discovery and the age of technology, you could use the hard drives as a canvas on which to paint a portrait of something like Robert Scott / Lawrence Oates, or Jacques Cousteau, or Armstrong and Aldrin etc.
On that last one - if you could tie the size of the drive in comparison to the size of the code used in the moon landing that might also be interesting.
Anyway, all that to say - art is a mix of medium and message
Their density makes them ring like a bell, if suspended by a wire through the center. Good wind chimes.
Magnets, yes. Great for the fridge!
Just watch out for your fingers. Yeee-ouch.
Nice : )
I use old platters to hang around our chicken houses. The idea is to distract hawks and eagles with the sparkle as they spin in the breeze... Probably doesn't work, but I like the shiny disks :)
Challenge accepted. I'll post our collection tomorrow! I used some magnets to hold up a white board last week too. Hahaha
Yes. Got to admit mine just isn't as big as yours, though.
In a distant post-apocalyptic future, the survivors will use hard drive platters as a currency.
I've been lucky enough to not have a drive die on me yet.
I wish I got that many hard drives just so I could do this.
I'm much more interested in your kit in the background.
That is a self-made soldering kit box I made when I was in college and had to haul it around a lot. I have actually been meeting to replace it with something more permanent now that I'm a grown up with my own house. I have an air flow soldering rig which doesn't really have a home, and I could have a much better use of space. I have my brocade ICX6610-24 next to that which I've been programming for way too long, and a whole bunch of 3D printer parts on top of that.
No, but you do, and I like this ob-jay-dar
I use the old disks as costers
This man self-hosts
The older IDE drives with the 5.25" platters and smaller ones make great wind chimes. The laptop ones are a bit .ore fragile due to thinner material. Years ago, we used to do this with a few of them.
Both of my autistic kids love magents. I will pull them from old drives, car/pc speakers, or anything else that has them.
Back in the day I bought a fridge freezer combo, second hand, no handles. Used to be a built in model. As handles I used two magnets from full height drives, they were ludicrously strong and shaped like a little bit like a handle.
Full height drives were 3.25" high for those who are wondering.