Old Hard Drives

[Cloq]

What to do with older HD's?

I am slowly building up a random collection of 74, 160, and 300 GB sata HD's. They are probably 3~7 years old.

I really don't feel comfortable in giving them to someone who will then use it and probably blame me when it fails.

Wish there was a place that would give you a small discount for recycling them.

[kunkel321]

I recommend you take the magnets out and play with them...

[KynloStephen66515]

I recommend you take the magnets out and play with them...

^ +1

[Cloq]

I recommend you take the magnets out and play with them...

Heh! Funny you should say that. I am still trying to get a couple of HD magnets off a storage cabinet at work.

[Renegade]

Playing with magnets! Oooh! Fun!

I'm planning on trying to make a Johnson Motor once I have time. Should be fun. But I'll just buy the magnets instead of ripping apart old drives.

Probably the best thing to do is to securely wipe the drives then destroy them. And play with the magnets.

[KynloStephen66515]

Playing with magnets! Oooh! Fun!

I'm planning on trying to make a Johnson Motor once I have time. Should be fun. But I'll just buy the magnets instead of ripping apart old drives.

Probably the best thing to do is to securely wipe the drives then destroy them. And play with the magnets.

Hit with hammer, play with magnets.

[nite_monkey]

Boat anchor? lol, jk. I like the idea of ripping them apart and playing with the magnets. I might have to do that to my old dead drives.

[4wd]

Make a Tesla Turbine.

[Deozaan]

Make a Tesla Turbine.

So what is that? Some sort of gryoscope-like device? What's the point of it? I mean besides looking cool/fun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAT9Nz63eS4

[4wd]

Make a Tesla Turbine.

So what is that? Some sort of gryoscope-like device? What's the point of it? I mean besides looking cool/fun?

Tesla Turbine^w

It's a turbine, same kind of thing they hang off jet aircraft wings to make them fly, (different design obviously).

It's a bladeless, (normal turbines have blades), turbine engine with one moving part, the rotors.

Not only that but if you have it so the rotor shaft is driven, (instead of driving), then it becomes a pump that will handle gas or liquid.

[Renegade]

Make a Tesla Turbine.

So what is that? Some sort of gryoscope-like device? What's the point of it? I mean besides looking cool/fun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAT9Nz63eS4

Looks like fun~!

Found the instructions for it here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Tesla-turbine-from-old-hard-drives-and-minimal-too/

But, I don't have the right equipment, and buying a drill press is kind of out of the question... Oh well.

[Renegade]

Here's another:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-15%2c000-rpm-Tesla-Turbine-using-hard-drive-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sq92Z-igM

[TaoPhoenix]

What to do with older HD's?

I am slowly building up a random collection of 74, 160, and 300 GB sata HD's. They are probably 3~7 years old.

I really don't feel comfortable in giving them to someone who will then use it and probably blame me when it fails.

Wish there was a place that would give you a small discount for recycling them.

The 300's are still fine for "casual users". I think there is a small market for "My First Linux Machine" for like $100 because it's old everything. I know, I know, support hell, but if you label it "Radioactive - Sold As Is - No questions Asked", I'd theoretically buy a junk comp like that for $100.

[40hz]

The disassembled platters make very musical wind chimes and miniature gongs. I've done up some very nice neo-gamelan instruments and music with them.  

[justice]

Put them all in a case and format then as ZFS and some kind of nas box and you will get a self healing, deduplicating, data integrity nas box.

[Renegade]

Put them all in a case and format then as ZFS and some kind of nas box and you will get a self healing, deduplicating, data integrity nas box.

Holy! That ZFS is pretty damn sexy stuff!