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Worst hard drive crash ever [pics]

neowin.net — We pulled a bad drive apart at work this afternoon. It had a nasty rattle to it before we opened it, but we didn't expect this:

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ooshlahe, on 02/28/2008, -65/+29Wow...thats pretty bad... I messed up a hard drive by sticking 7 internal speakers to it and it wasn't even that badly damaged.
- theaceoffire, on 02/28/2008, -15/+65How did you install a speaker inside a hard drive?
  - Satanael, on 02/28/2008, -4/+38Internal speakers are big, powerful magnets. They'll grab the screwdriver from your hand.
    - IllBeBack, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Whoosh!
  - ooshlahe, on 02/28/2008, -13/+8last time i checked sticking something to another object does not require installation. considering there are magnets on internal speakers i dont recall it being very difficult
- twiztidsinz, on 02/28/2008, -3/+42ooshlahe said TO it... as in sticking the magnets TO the hard drive, not IN.. not that hard to understand.
  - Petrie, on 02/28/2008, -13/+4Unless he's a fan of having surround sound inside his case, it actually IS quite hard to understand.
    - twiztidsinz, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10Not if the intention was to damage the harddrive
      i.e. it was a bad drive and you wanted to see it mess up even more
- Petrie, on 02/28/2008, -42/+4That comment punched my penis. Reported.
  - Coded1, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Fight the power man!
- debuggercll, on 02/28/2008, -10/+123Computers are just crazy and fragile. I put 12 super strong magnets on my hard drive, set fire to the chassis, let a grenade explode inside of it, and threw it from the international space station into a volcano, and the damn thing broke! I think it didn't have enough jiggahertz.
  - paradigmx, on 02/28/2008, -1/+281.20?
    - xyqxyq, on 02/28/2008, -3/+19I see what you did there, it's 0.01 less than 1.21.
      - NullPolarity, on 02/28/2008, -1/+40.01, IT'S OVER NINE THOUSANDTHS!
    - therightclique, on 02/28/2008, -7/+1huge fail... he didn't even say jiggawatts, which is his bad i guess.
  - scooterMX, on 02/28/2008, -3/+12you probably didn't adjust the flux capacitor!
  - Fxer, on 02/28/2008, -11/+1Do you mean jiggyherz?
    (obscure Banjo Kazooie reference)
    (not so obscure now that i said what the reference was)
  - iceblademan, on 02/28/2008, -2/+4Having worked in retail for many years, I've heard it all. That statement pretty much sums up what every Babyboomer has said to me in one ridiculous statement. good job
- billbrasky, on 02/28/2008, -54/+3What do you think spins a hard drive? Maybe a powerful magnet? You are stupid if you think that one of the main components of a hard drive erases it.
  - chromerium, on 02/28/2008, -0/+30Fail.
  - sERIALeATER, on 02/28/2008, -4/+3Troll failed.
  - madm0nk, on 02/28/2008, -0/+17http://www.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm
  - gbarger, on 02/28/2008, -0/+12and you're stupid if you think it won't mess it up....on and a magnet doesn't "spin" a hard drive. An electric motor spins the platters, and there is a strong magnet inside the drive to operate the servo to control the reader arm, but on the end of each reader arm is a highly sensitive magnet that's used to read/write on the platters. So...hard drives a really sensitive to magnetic fields. That's a quick and dirty explanation, but a magnet will definitely mess up a hard drive.
    - Tenoq, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6It has to be an epic magnet though, and very close to the surface. It's been tested time and again - try actually using a magnet to erase a HDD without opening it: it's very difficult. I've run a HDD magnet (very strong) over the outside of another HDD - no damage to the data at all. With an electro-magnet you might be able to do some damage, but people always overstate how sensitive HDDs are to magnets.
      - dacheetah, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1One of these would probably cause some hurt:
        http://www.magnet.com.au/products.php?sectionId=2& ...
        
        (They have one that at a rough conversion is 2" x 2" x ½".)
  - muchachoburacho, on 02/28/2008, -2/+1wow.
skippydog, on 02/28/2008, -42/+3WTH?
ruyn, on 02/28/2008, -52/+7O nos Datas go bye.
withremote, on 02/28/2008, -52/+2OMH!
- KargeOfTylenol, on 02/28/2008, -1/+18OMHD*
  - TheShom, on 02/28/2008, -6/+1Nice one Karge, Nice.
degron, on 02/28/2008, -32/+3Looks like he should have out some oil on it.
dupswapdrop, on 02/28/2008, -35/+5opps I hope you backed up your data!
- ayeroxor, on 02/28/2008, -2/+3buried for writing opps. OOPS =/= OPPS.
  
  /how does one get through life not realizing it takes two o's to make a long O sound?
  - dupswapdrop, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1opps I see the word Nazis are out today!
canthraxp, on 02/28/2008, -4/+529For every hard disk that dies, there's a happy geek with some awesome magnets.
- affanjam, on 02/28/2008, -2/+70Did we just kill Neowin
  mirror http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:http://www.ne ...
  - antdude, on 02/28/2008, -4/+2NeoWin's must had its worst HD crash ever. ;)
  - dinostabOMG, on 02/28/2008, -1/+18Dugg for them dealing with it well.
    - jjesusfreak01, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9Really, I was just thinking that...who makes a page just to post the links when your servers crash.
- digidelia, on 02/28/2008, -6/+2trouble is getting the magnets off without
  -destroying the magnet
  -slicing your hand off with the razor blade
  
  but i agree, those magnets are awesome
  - pixelguru, on 02/28/2008, -0/+19You don't really need to separate the magnet from its little steel holder, but if you want to, the best way I've found is to clamp the edge of the steel in a vice, grab the opposite end with a stout pair of pliers (being careful not to grab the magnet itself or for your pliers to get stuck to the super magnet) and BEND THE STEEL CHASIS. The steel will bend, but the magnet will not, creating a handy gap which you can use to slide a flat-bladed screwdriver into and finish off the separation process. I wouldn't get a razor blade ANYWHERE NEAR one of those magnets (especially the Seagate Barracuda ones which I have to pry off my fridge with both hands).
    Also, don't forget to remove the tiny (often cubical) magnet which docks the heads. These are sometimes difficult to separate from their plastic holders, but they're also incredibly strong for their size.
    - jgzman, on 02/28/2008, -0/+16While that is certainly possible, I recommend this site: http://tinyurl.com/89pbx
      They will sell you the same magnets as small as 1/8 inch cube, and as large as 2in x2in x 3in.
      - pixelguru, on 02/28/2008, -0/+16In the words of Wil Smith, I have GOT to get me one of THESE!
        While I admit that part of the fun of removing these magnets from dead drives was that they were free... The magnets that company sells are cool beyond words. How in the heck would you ship a magnet with over 500LBS of pull force though??? Wouldn't that thing erase any magnetic media in a 50' radius. I'm picturing the FedEx driver trying in vain to pry the box off the inside of his truck!!!
      - 1randomnumber, on 02/28/2008, -0/+7They ship them in a 5x5 box filled with styrofoam around the magnet. It'll still pull a bit, but not much to be noticeable at that length.
        
        However, they do usually come with warnings to keep a 10 ft radius from ferrous metals, or it can spontaneously fly towards the object, and if you are inbetween the metal and the magnet, cause severe internal organ crushing and death.
      - NullPolarity, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Holy *****, those magnets are a geek's dream.
      - jgzman, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1"A small child recently lost his hand when his father left two # 31 supermagnets unattended. The child picked one up and when he approached the other magnet on a nearby table, it became airborne and obliterated his small hand."
  - Zippo, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1When I tore apart my old hard drive and removed the magnets, I simply let the two piece stick together... after a couple of times of prying them apart, they separated from the steel.
- TomTruelle, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4not in this case...
- LiquidLeopard, on 02/28/2008, -2/+6best comment ever.
  - 4LeggedtriPod, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3Use the internet more.
- MacParrot, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5No problem! My dad's a TV repairman with an AWESOME set of tools! I can fix this!
  - blacktriangle, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Jeff Spicolli?
    - MacParrot, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1All I need is some tasty waves and a cool buzz man!
- UpperUpsilon, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Oh, and don't ever try to use the neodymium magnets you get out of these as fake earrings. Very uh, painful.
- giid, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3I'm embarrassed to call myself a geek now. I've never torn apart a hard drive. I've take apart pretty much everything else tho.
  
  Growing up as a kid, people would always give me their broken electronics. Sometimes I'd fix it, sometimes it was never put back together and ripped apart.
  - kevyn, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I am in the same boat as you... only difference is that I know where there is a 4gb HDD waiting to be smashed...
- aekdbbop, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3make a homebrewing stirplate!
  
  http://brewiki.org/StirPlate
- Lukinator, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Those magnets are bitchin'.
  Just don't put them on your TV...
- Jpotts12, on 02/28/2008, -1/+0That's stupid.
mrloco, on 02/28/2008, -43/+9Will it blend?
- dsmx, on 02/28/2008, -22/+5To quote a response from that thread. Of course, it's not a Chuck Norris action figure.
- Phlake, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9It appears as though the drive blended itself.
Bviper, on 02/28/2008, -7/+145This is proof too much porn is a bad thing.
- RaysinX, on 02/28/2008, -1/+44or the other way around...
  
  a hard drive without porn is suicidal
  - Flawed77, on 02/28/2008, -0/+32Yep. Looks like another person failed to meet their porn quota.
  - gudnbluts, on 02/28/2008, -1/+16"a hard drive without porn"
    
    Is that even possible?
- KaiSe7eN, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5chkdsk!
  - snotrokit, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13*****
- ZiggityZhang, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Corretion: Losing much porn is a bad thing.
  - blumer, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Correction: Too much porn not striped across RAID 5 is a bad thing.
- kutateli, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Now they can snort the porn!
- warrenterr, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1that's why i make dvd backups
- jisc123, on 02/28/2008, -2/+0amazing...i write something similar and get dugg down. why cant i get any loving? :(
GinsuGuy585, on 02/28/2008, -1/+51Quantum fireball drive, that brings back memories...
- ThreeDee912, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3I actually still have two or three 1.3 GB fireball drives laying around somewhere... Yeah, I'm a geek...
  - antdude, on 02/28/2008, -2/+4I still have my Fireball 6.4 GB. However, it might be dying due to a recent glitch that Debian told me:
    
    hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
    hdb: DMA timeout error
    hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
    DataRequest }
    ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    hda: DMA disabled
    hdb: DMA disabled
    ide0: reset: success
    hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
    hdb: DMA timeout error
    hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
    DataRequest }
    ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    hdb: DMA disabled
    ide0: reset: success
    hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
    hdb: DMA timeout error
    hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
    DataRequest }
    ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    hdb: DMA disabled
    ide0: reset: success
    hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
    hdb: DMA timeout error
    hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
    DataRequest }
    ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    hdb: DMA disabled
    ide0: reset: success
    
    I had to reboot and I haven't had the glitch since then (almost a week).
    - GliTCH82, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Translation: Get smartsuite for Debian.
      
      http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000488.htm ...
      - antdude, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1I already have it, but it didn't find any problems:
        
        # /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hdb
        smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
        Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
        
        === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
        Device Model: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A
        Serial Number: 376833611720
        Firmware Version: A0A.0D00
        User Capacity: 6,448,619,520 bytes
        Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
        ATA Version is: 4
        ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 15
        Local Time is: Sat Feb 23 19:09:07 2008 PST
        SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
        SMART support is: Enabled
        
        === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
        SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
        
        General SMART Values:
        Offline data collection status: (0x02) Offline data collection activity
        was completed without error.
        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
        Total time to complete Offline
        data collection: ( 1) seconds.
        Offline data collection
        capabilities: (0x03) SMART execute Offline immediate.
        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
        Suspend Offline collection upon new
        command.
        No Offline surface scan supported.
        No Self-test supported.
        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
        No Selective Self-test supported.
        SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
        power-saving mode.
        Supports SMART auto save timer.
        Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging NOT supported.
        No General Purpose Logging support.
        
        SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 7
        Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
        ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
        1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0029 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0
        3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 077 076 020 Pre-fail Always - 2933
        4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 008 Old_age Always - 1124
        5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0
        7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 023 Pre-fail Always - 0
        9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 013 013 001 Old_age Always - 57574
        11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0
        12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 008 Old_age Always - 1117
        13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 023 Pre-fail Always - 0
        199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x001a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
        
        Warning: device does not support Error Logging
        SMART Error Log Version: 0
        No Errors Logged
        
        Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging
        SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0
        Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1
        No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
        
        Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging
- guythomas, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Memories of two bad hard drives in two months. What pieces of crap!
  - betobeto, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1And that's why I still backup all my music and data on CDs. Hard drives can give up the ghost when you least expect it. This is what I call the dark side of the Brave New (digital) World. Maybe when big capacity SSD drives become truly affordable these instances will be less likely to happen, but for now it is better to play it safe and make an habit out of backing up everything important.
- saisumimen, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Those Quantum Fireball drives were solid. Those drives that were manufactured in Singapore are a hell of a lot higher quality than the Maxtor and WD garbage coming out of Chinese factories these days.
  - Yazoo, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2I guess the proof is in the pictures?
    - saisumimen, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2In case you're not joking, that right there is a weird fluke. I still have 5 QFs from 1998/99/2000 (20gb drives) that I use to stream media from. They've far outlived two Chinese Maxtors and one Chinese WD (which burned after 4 months). If you inspect the actual drives themselves, they're made out of higher quality materials.
- shoeberto, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I was running my OS off a 9gb Fireball up until about a year ago. The thing had moved and been Frankensteined so much I was pretty scared it would flat-out stop working before too long. But even at 10 years old, I could still probably plug it in and use it for storing a single game, I guess.
LumpOfCole, on 02/28/2008, -1/+386Hard drive smoke, don't breathe this.
- eosp, on 02/28/2008, -6/+39I almost forgot about "Will it blend?".
  - MellerTime, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Looks like it already was...
  - MrCobaltBlue, on 02/28/2008, -5/+28Don't Blend Me Bro!
    - Jeffler, on 02/28/2008, -10/+1In Soviet Russia, blendz are in ur willz.
      - Pixelante, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1Don't Soviet me, bro.
    - saisumimen, on 02/28/2008, -7/+3Combining two memes = fail.
- JoEb0x, on 02/28/2008, -3/+8haha! i had to login to express my genuine lawl!
  - therightclique, on 02/28/2008, -8/+2what did anyone of that sentence even mean?
    - minigamer1896, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9What that you say?
    - GliTCH82, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3He not speaka zhe intarwebs.
    - IllBeBack, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1"anyone of that sentence"? uhhhhhhhhhh, what?
  - kevyn, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3you could of kept it to yourself, we wouldn't mind
- captainchris, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4saviour of this whole comments page.
- Zeag, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2I think I'm gonna put this on Ebay!
  - EgaoNoGenki, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1Remember eBay suspends innocent family members just for being related to a suspended user. They even suspend co-workers for being associates of a suspended user.
- carleethian, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1it's ok, i didn't inhale...
- EgaoNoGenki, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Will it Blend? That is the question.
rollingstone21, on 02/28/2008, -22/+3That's what happens if you download pron at work
- teh_techie, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2That's what happens when I purposely destroy the hard drive after my manager suspects I've been downloading pr0n at work...
Falldog, on 02/28/2008, -4/+452The cool thing about having a digital camera is being able to see which pictures turned out badly so you can delete them and try again.
- SEN5241, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12Manual focus ftw!
- konstantinos88, on 02/28/2008, -11/+1man, remember when digital cameras were not in widespread use? that was like forever ago.
awm4, on 02/28/2008, -35/+2Needs NSFW tag
- SpookyPig, on 02/28/2008, -2/+16... why?
- ophello, on 02/28/2008, -2/+46you need a STFU tag
  - iChainsaw, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5ZING! ZING!
  - specialK16, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2owned.
matt487, on 02/28/2008, -3/+18I'd love to know how many RPMs that disk was spinning at.
- ophello, on 02/28/2008, -2/+101Over 9000!!!!!
  - lolwutpear, on 02/28/2008, -4/+0first thought on everyone's mind
  - planetbeing, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Wrong in this case. 5400 RPM says Google.
  - Zippo, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2WHAT 9000!?
- PHiZ187, on 02/28/2008, -0/+50All of them, apparently.
  - markintosh, on 02/28/2008, -2/+3Derp!
- scooterMX, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10220 - 221 - whatever it takes.
blumer, on 02/28/2008, -1/+170Looks like all the bits fell off the platters.
- trogdor282, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4What is the head made out of that it could do that much damage to the platter without disintegrating?
  - CHalCogen, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4The head is made of a ceramic, ferrite. The disc is made of a type of steel optimized for magnetic properties (with a thin coating of recording material on top). Ceramics (or rocks) can easily grind down steel, especially if it's thin, spinning rapidly, and ground upon over time. Secondary collisions with flying parts were the probable cause of the shattering of the HDD magnets, which are also made of a ceramic. Ceramics are very hard, but very brittle.
  - linuxpenguin, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3Adamantium.
- CaviMike, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2cue rimshot
- diggduggjoe, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2I saw one like this once. It was on a server that they never backed up properly. They lost a ton of data that volunteers had entered. They had to start from scratch on that project. The had to pay OnTrack several hundred just to find out it was toast. Metal filings everywhere!
  
  I saw an IBM SCSI with the glass platter do something like this. You could see through the glass. I wish I had kept the drive for a test. I wonder how hard you would need to throw it to shatter the platters.
  - isaactwito, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3If I remember correctly from the Screen Savers (RIP) a hammer does the job fairly well.
    - EntangledPhysx, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4man, the Screen Savers was awesome. Then G4 took over and now the channel is total garbagee
      - sleepwalkers, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I think it's a requirement to mention how badly G4 screwed things up whenever anyone mentions TSS.
SpookyPig, on 02/28/2008, -41/+4Arrrgh. First comment was lame. Bury this if you please.
- chrisaug18, on 02/28/2008, -2/+10Don't mind if I do.
  /Me using the reply feature
- teh_techie, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I please.
- PCDestroyer, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1I digged him up
captoftheworld, on 02/28/2008, -13/+1Love Land
perkonis, on 02/28/2008, -1/+182I am utterly amazed that thing would keep spinning long enough to do that kind of damage.
scarz99, on 02/28/2008, -18/+2Looks like someone dropped their excrements into it.
chrisaug18, on 02/28/2008, -4/+14Err maybe you better put that hardrive back in your server...it doesn't seem to be working right
Defkon, on 02/28/2008, -9/+30Mirror?
- zionKing, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:http://www.ne ...
  - chrisaug18, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Thanks
- RandomSkratch, on 02/28/2008, -3/+1Not even the biggest mirror could save the likes of that poor drive....
- KyjL, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Look into the platters.
EdgeOfEpsilon, on 02/28/2008, -24/+8Mirror?
- JupiterSSJ4, on 02/28/2008, -11/+4(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250019 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250020 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250021 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250022 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250023 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250024 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250025 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250026 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250027 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250028 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250029 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250030 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250031 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250033 ...
  - metateck, on 02/28/2008, -0/+12I've never seen so many dead links posted consecutively. Win.
    - Peavey, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2No, it's the way that Digg does links. If you click the link and delete the close parenthesis at the end, they work just fine. Just be sure that .JPG suffix is capitalized.
      - ceralor, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2In other words, he was retarded for not putting a space between the parenthesis and the URL.
      - Peavey, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Actually, the first time I posted a link I did the same thing. The only reason I noticed it was because whenever I post a link to anywhere I like to test it to make sure it does what I wanted.
        
        It is entirely possible that he had no idea that it would happen, and may still not know.
Arkane308, on 02/28/2008, -21/+5Mirror?
- paradigmx, on 02/28/2008, -1/+6http://www.framemytv.com/images/Akhan1/TV-Mirror1a ...
  - Coded1, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Thanks.
damentz, on 02/28/2008, -15/+2Site is broken, no mirrors.
zeromancer, on 02/28/2008, -23/+6wtb mirror. 10g.
- Purin, on 02/28/2008, -5/+3Sorry, WoW is pathetic.
  - zeromancer, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1aye. that's why i quit before it got ruined by the expansion.
yvovandoorn, on 02/28/2008, -6/+30Pretty sad / bad that a website can crash this fast.
- manitoba98xp, on 02/28/2008, -1/+16Where do you think they got the drive? :P
  
  (For reference, it's back up now.)
- sum33t, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5Neowin actually has pretty decent servers but, it's almost impossible to survive the tidal wave known as the digg effect.
- teh_techie, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Do you seriously not understand that the digg effect is basically a DoS attack? Massive influx of requests = Denial of Service
briansearles, on 02/28/2008, -15/+6MIRROR?
jb0nd38372, on 02/28/2008, -8/+8By the looks of the picture it looks like the drive somehow got moisture inside which in turn created corrosion. I just wonder if beside the noise it was making if it was capable of actually holding data.
- rusty0101, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Hold data? Sure. Is it accessible? Well, not with the mechanics of that drive, and there will be significant gaps if you attempt to use really advanced clean room tech and so on.
  
  From a practical standpoint, I would suggest it be considered Write Only Storage. That does presume that the controller isn't failing the drive already. (It had better be.)
- arcticblue, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Did you see the same pics I did? The platter had been shaved all the way through.
Dustin00, on 02/28/2008, -15/+6Mirror?
Jarmer, on 02/28/2008, -8/+214?rorriM
- defectDS, on 02/28/2008, -1/+56¿ɹoɹɹıɯ
  - fugeelama, on 02/28/2008, -2/+25I see what you did there...
  - itsgotyou, on 02/28/2008, -7/+17how the ***** did you even do that!? DUGG!!!!
    - BryanJK, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1http://digg.com/playable_web_games/i_x_u_op_p_sdn
  - nreynolds, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3the problem being that ¿ɹoɹɹıɯ isn't what you would see in a mirror...
    - iLEZ, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3?rorrim
      ¿ɹoɹɹıɯ
      
      Naw, you're right..
ShawnIsCool, on 02/28/2008, -16/+4Mirror?
billbrasky, on 02/28/2008, -13/+1mirror?
Floppay, on 02/28/2008, -105/+717Mirror: http://baysideproducts.com/store/images/victoria_c ...
- diothar, on 02/28/2008, -7/+16nice...
- j0313971, on 02/28/2008, -7/+22you win
- kurupttek, on 02/28/2008, -6/+103Well you didn't lie so you get a digg
  - Floppay, on 02/28/2008, -5/+17give the people what they want, that's my motto :D
- blinkin, on 02/28/2008, -5/+35*golf clap*
- SumguyTwentyOne, on 02/28/2008, -13/+86Wow, I've never seen that joke before on Digg.
  - qwertycopter, on 02/28/2008, -10/+9We care.
- Coolmatt49, on 02/28/2008, -6/+55Touché...
- gregdbowen, on 02/28/2008, -13/+5dude. funny as hell - LMAO
- Hobbes24, on 02/28/2008, -3/+64hahaha, i really wanted to show my roomate this, but then i realized he didn't get digg jokes : (
  - digjam, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Trust me... I tried that with my wife...and you know the result..! :-(
    - lintmonkey, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9You have a computer in the kitchen?
- fallline, on 02/28/2008, -5/+4awesome.. made me literally laugh out loud.
- Leetamus, on 02/28/2008, -10/+1PWND!
- MrBill79, on 02/28/2008, -2/+40Wow, I haven't seen that gag in a while...
  - Mike89, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Because everyone got sick of it and dugg it down. Floppay just bide his time and struck when none of us expected it.
- j0313971, on 02/28/2008, -9/+1134 diggs in 15 min on a comment.
  might be a new record.
- chrgrose, on 02/28/2008, -5/+3lol. Bastard!
- mark_in_bc, on 02/28/2008, -4/+12Now that was ***** funny. Made my day. I wish I could do more than just give you a digg. Thanks for the chuckle I needed it.
  - Floppay, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4no problem :)
- farewell2RMS, on 02/28/2008, -7/+5rick rolled.
- paddyosmith, on 02/28/2008, -4/+34betcha that within two weeks after digg is littered with similar comments like this that it won't be so funny any more... but for now, lol.
  - Light11, on 02/28/2008, -1/+21people used to do this all the time
    - tidu, on 02/28/2008, -0/+16yeah it was kinda funny, they all just linked to the first result in a google image search for mirror. it was a mirror with a vase next to it.
- PlanetJ1, on 02/28/2008, -4/+5haha mirror FTW!
- aussieNickuss, on 02/28/2008, -0/+21Bay Side Products the poor bastards are gonna have their servers crashed by that link.
  - gotspeed1212, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1didnt you see there server hard drive....
- ilikesboobs, on 02/28/2008, -14/+4Here's a working mirror for those that he fooled:
  http://www.seattleluxe.com/indexPageImages/clear-m ...
- justintsmith, on 02/28/2008, -8/+1Why is this picture funny?
  - Stephen1424, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5got me again... Shame on me..
  - daradib, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Because it is a mirror. As in a mirror you use to look at yourself.
- SirBrittanicus, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Oh you bastard...
- waldo686, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4***** you got me
- DMC12jz, on 02/28/2008, -13/+3logged in... just to bury you.
  - opmike, on 02/28/2008, -0/+17logged in... just to bury you.
    - DMC12jz, on 02/28/2008, -8/+3I knew someone was going to. Thanks! *dugg*
- MacMan88, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6punny
- Arcesius, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5That's a pretty freaking sweet mirror.
- PleaseJustDie, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5Even though I've seen that on digg many times, that's probably the nicest mirror I've seen anyone post so I'll digg you for it.
- IareKEVLAR, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5I'm just happy i dont have dial up, that diversion would have been a bitch.
- ponycat, on 02/28/2008, -3/+0Dirtbag: http://digg.com/users/Floppay
- DrEmp5, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1uh huh, ok u get a digg
- Samek, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3*****, you got me! =]
Razenoth, on 02/28/2008, -42/+10We pulled a bad drive apart at work this afternoon. It had a nasty rattle to it before we opened it, but we didn't expect this:

(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250019 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250020 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250021 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250022 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250023 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250024 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250025 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250026 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250027 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250028 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250029 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250030 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250031 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250033 ...
- Kyrato, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2Broken Links
TheAmbushAhead, on 02/28/2008, -45/+9
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250019 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250020 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250021 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250022 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250023 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250024 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250025 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250026 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250027 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250028 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250029 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250030 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250031 ...
(IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250033 ...
- TheAmbushAhead, on 02/28/2008, -3/+12Sorry about the links not working unless you remove parentheses. Fixed:
  
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250019 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250020 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250021 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250022 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250023 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250024 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250025 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250026 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250027 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250028 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250029 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250030 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250031 ...
  (IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250033 ...
  - Peavey, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1+1 Digg on both comments for fixing your links.
dashdingo, on 02/28/2008, -23/+3Page loaded just fine for me. All of your internets must not be working.
- CaptainM4d, on 02/28/2008, -4/+2Don't be talkin' down to Bessie like that!
- EXreaction, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Well see who's internet doesn't work after I drag an anchor over your cables.
  - gotspeed1212, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1XD
Picaroon, on 02/28/2008, -17/+5Neowin is made of lose
- ThreeDee912, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2fail*
- itsgotyou, on 02/28/2008, -0/+0your vagina is made of lose.
Arkane308, on 02/28/2008, -14/+1I wish the comment system had a time stamp
- CATSCEO, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2It does.
scoottie, on 02/28/2008, -9/+1cant be any worse then the website crashing
Bkaufman, on 02/28/2008, -12/+3Mirror that works?!??!
kavaliro, on 02/28/2008, -5/+157We pulled a website apart at work this afternoon. It had a nasty rattle to it before we opened it, but we didn't expect this:
404
Aadain, on 02/28/2008, -9/+1Mirror?
tekhna, on 02/28/2008, -9/+1Mirror?
Demonkid549, on 02/28/2008, -9/+84http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F% ...

http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250019 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250020 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250021 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250022 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250023 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250024 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250025 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250026 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250027 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250028 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250029 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250030 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250031 ...
http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250033 ...
- LordKaT, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Unrecoverable data error.
- Kyrato, on 02/28/2008, -0/+0THANKS!
- qwertycopter, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Ma bits!
Razenoth, on 02/28/2008, -14/+39* Content now with working clicky links.

We pulled a bad drive apart at work this afternoon. It had a nasty rattle to it before we opened it, but we didn't expect this:

IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250019 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250020 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250021 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250022 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250023 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250024 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250025 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250026 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250027 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250028 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250029 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250030 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250031 ...
IMG:http://staff.neowin.net/marshalus/hdcrash/P2250033 ...
- Phil1ip123, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10It looks like a firecracker went off inside there.
- stackered, on 02/28/2008, -2/+1You can click links?! OMG!
- thefinger, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2Digg effect made manifest
- gotspeed1212, on 02/29/2008, -1/+1omg we love clicky links lol
brentinkc, on 02/28/2008, -14/+6Pathetic. Last time I click on a link for neowin.net
- ePuck, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2whats wrong with it? i dont dare click
  - steroberts89, on 02/28/2008, -1/+0nothing, its just ye olde digg effect
    - McGrude, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1The effect formerly known as "The Slashdot Effect"
Chainheart, on 02/28/2008, -26/+4Mirror: http://hylianhd.rpgplanet.gamespy.com/z5/items/mir ...
- blinkin, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6buried for fail.
Cryoniq, on 02/28/2008, -7/+22Seems like that harddrive was a part of the internet tube that the URL was pointing at :D
wiitarded666, on 02/28/2008, -14/+2wow still nothing anybody have a working mirror??
- aston127, on 02/28/2008, -3/+2http://bayimg.com/PajhAAABb
- AdmiralAcbar, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2look up, wiitard.
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