This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.
Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?
Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?
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.
This is just a less gross version of “DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions”?
baffled glance…wot?
just the magnets. They are very nice magnets.
Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:
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.
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.
Cool, I’ll try this next time. So far the least damaging way I’ve tried is putting the thing in hot water. The magnet and the base expand by different amounts and it is relatively easy to pry the magnet off. But the thing cools down quickly so it takes a few tries.
Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.
I made a DRAM catcher once.
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
I heard they keep data corruption away.
What
I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s
Ah yes. The famous write-only backup solution :D
You joke but early 90s we had exactly this with magneto optical drives
That’s a funny looking Stanley cup.
Dude’s the Predator of the IT world
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!
Curious about the age of the oldest one
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zombie apocalypse DIY railgun
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.
That’s funny, that’s exactly the method I stored my cdRoms back in the day.
