On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:31:23 -0700
Jos Laake <jos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
>
> > In contrast, my IDE drives have failed abruptly and without warning, many
> > times before the warranty was expired. I have a bucket of such drives,
> > which I intend to take the platters out to make attractive and very smooth
> > drinks coasters.
>
> Those platters also make fine wind chimes, although it's
> better to use several drives of different sizes as all those
> precisely machined platters from the same drive play exactly
> the same note. ;-)
My favorite use was by an old client of mine. He'd take all the dead
hardware up to a camp and blow the holy hell out of it with all different
sorts of firearms.
I have a drive here that he gave me that was shot with a .357 Magnum.
It has a very neatly punched hole right through the platters! I keep
it on my desk as a warning to the rest of the hardware.
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