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Platters make good coasters
In a distant post-apocalyptic future, the survivors will use hard drive platters as a currency.
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
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.
Public toilet till machines - we don't have that in the US. Can you show a example - potentially even fishing out some coins? Super curious!
Every time, without fail, though I haven't decided what I want to do with them yet.
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.
No, but you do, and I like this ob-jay-dar
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 :)
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.
Yes. Got to admit mine just isn't as big as yours, though.
Challenge accepted. I'll post our collection tomorrow! I used some magnets to hold up a white board last week too. Hahaha
Nice : )
There's some really fun chemistry in the rare-earth magnets - I used to buy them in bulk to enlarge my own IT-workshop collection, which was mostly broken down for Nd salts. Also, the magnets from iMac screens were also plentiful when HDD magnets got small (and then went extinct).
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.
That kit box would actually be perfect for my needs as this is a hobby I only visit occasionally or when needed. It would be great to have something I can easily store.
I've been lucky enough to not have a drive die on me yet.
Now I am feeling sorry I did not...
I use the old disks as costers