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Re: Is it worth keeping an old hard drive?

 
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Nov 24th, 2008
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Originally Posted by jbennet View Post
yeah i disasembled my dead Hitatchi/IBM Deskstar once and it had wierd glass platters. You could see why it had died, the magnetic material had actually worn off of them and turned to dust. There was a groove where the head had hit it at 7000 rpm and disintegrated lol.
Thats pretty cool (not that it died), I have heard of newer HDDs using glass and ceramics but I have never seen them myself (though I think I have one...A Samsung Spinpoint 750Gb). I have taken many HDDs apart and only found what I believe to be a silicon-aluminum alloy. They prove to be very rigid and strong, but reasonably lightweight; perfect material for coasters.
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