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- firepowered, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42it isnt blogspam! techeblog is the author.
anyway, uses for HDD, hmm: WILL IT BLEND? - MisterEd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26He could have at least made sure all the videos actually worked. Two are no longer available.
- Zinite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Blogspam is when a blog links to the original article. This blog is the originator of the content.
- Matadon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The insanely strong magnets are also surprisingly useful. Need to secure your car cover to your vehicle in a windstorm? Apply four HD magnets, one at each corner, so that they tack the cover to the undercarriage of the vehicle. They even have little metal flanges which make them easier to pull off.
Also good for magnetizing screwdrivers.
The drive platters make great geek drink coasters. *grin* - jazzmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11SUCKS! All the videos are no longer there.
- solarix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah half of the videos aren't there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I like to take the platters out and make HD mobiles. The platters are shiny and it makes good geek decor. :P
- d17182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The dominoes and speaker videos are still there.
But yeah the tesla video was the one I really wanted to see. - will-rom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5YouTube is blocked anyway. Damn you network group.
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Tesla turbine != Tesla coil
- danmanx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4One thing I do is install my older HDs into my parents and sisters' computers. Then I just download content and transfer various data to the HDs. Hell, they don't even notice. This way gives me alot more freedom to store data. If a drive is only 20GBs, then I put it in a drawer with a nice fresh copy of windows XP pro and then (and yes, it DOES happen) when a computers' HD goes crazy, that becomes the holy drive of saving!
- palmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What you should be complaining about is the fact that people are posting "videos" for crap like this instead of PICTURES. There is essentially no benefit to animation for any of these proposals.
Let's see, video looks like ***** and consumes a bunch of bandwidth, whereas pictures can look excellent and load almost instantly. Which should we use? - raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5wtf? "this video is no longer available"
- spiritamx79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hell yeah, i took an old 20 gig hdd that died on me 2 years ago, took it apart, and made a clock out of it. when the sun hits it just the right way, it will bind you =)
- leopardhunter, on 02/18/2009, -0/+4Hard drive clock
http://www.alan-parekh.com/hard_drive_clock.html - spootwo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People have died manufacturing hard drives(google "IBM employees" "hard drives") from inhaling the fumes. Newer Perpendicular drives some radioactive components, so I think it is not a good coaster.
- sanguineapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you're my boyfriend then you take apart old hard drives to steal the magnets and leave them all over my refrigerator.
- graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Agreed,
Terms of Use violation? WTFs with that. - MrPlug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ive gutted out an old hard drive to hold Marijuana, holds a good 5G's and keeps the smell in 100%, whose ever gonna blame the HDD laying on your desk with a collection of other parts. Not me!
- gJon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What is it about geeks and hard drives? I have a plethora of defunct hard drives laying around my house and for some reason I can't bring myself to get rid of them. Or maybe I'm just insane.
- fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Actually it is, this is all stolen content that has been on digg before. But i can't blame them. i was thinking of compiling these HD hack onto a page myself.
- hockey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Matadon
I second you on how insane the magnets are.
They make the ones you get off of thinkgeek look like those toy magnets that went on the back of the letters you stuck on the fridge as a kid. - fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2mirror, and 2 awesome clocks
http://dotoca.net/?news=45
http://digg.com/design/Hard_drive_clock_Hand_Tools - shauben2007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Furrtek, a French modder? Ok, I can take the body odor, compulsive surrender, and lack of razors for women, but stealing ***** from afrotechmods is crossing the line.
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not the best collection I have ever seen. The other day, I scrapped a dead PII computer, and pulled out one of those crazy 5.25" hard drives that they used to sell for extra high capacity uses. This thing was insane. It still worked, held 20GB (that was a lot in 1997), and when I hooked it up to a USB to IDE converter, just laying on my desk, every time the disk would seek, it would twitch, which was pretty cool. Also, the platters were big enough, with enough mass, that when you picked it up, you got a major gyroscopic effect. As soon as I had recovered the data on it for a client, it went strait into my computer museum.
- zackkitzmiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They forgot Blending It.
- darkpl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thats bad, I wanted to see them. Maybe someone will provide backup?
- joerod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i removed the cover of a damaged hdd i had and i use it for geek decor in my apt. trust me, girls love geek decor.
- aposter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Take them to the range and shoot them with assorted firearms. Take the platters out and set them up as seperate targets from the housing. The Aluminum platters deform and stretch nicely. the glass platters seem to simply disintegrate. A guy down the hall has two of the old 12" Al platters on his wall he shot with a Hawkin replica. It keeps the really stupid questions to a minimum for him.
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2use it in a modded xbox or ps2
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You could use the parts to repair other HDDs to recover.
- fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1weird, those really aren't that great. He missed the 2 hard drive clocks on digg lately, the 3 piece speaker system, and the solder art...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2'Domonoes'?
I ***** hate the fact that people just don't care about spelling anymore. - surgeprotector, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My buddy has a data destruction business and he destroyed about 200 HDDs the other day at work with his equipment that creates a strong magnetic field. Can't be within 15 feet or so or it'll affect other sensitive devices. We proved that CD's are safe though :D Anyway as for the HDDs we had fun throwing them in a big container. Don't get to do that every day.
- polo3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tesla Turbine video =p
http://staff.washington.edu/sbtroy/turbine/turbine.html
Ahhmazing. - yatoobin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always wondered why a hard drive's strong magnets don't affect the data on the platters.
- jiberish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can't see the forrest through the trees.
- se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've used some old HDs that simply no longer work as coasters. Any geek can have CD-Rs as coasters, but only l33t have HD platters as coasters. :-P
- dtd00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oops. You bwoke it.
- krakkinem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use one as a doorstop. Best doorstop I've ever had.
- unununium272, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12.5'"drives make excellent belt buckles as well (story was dug a short while ago), and platers make good decorations for walls. I always love finding 'em at the local land fill.
- Nameless1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Who's up for a game of DomOnos?
- jerrycan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That case mod with the Hard drives must weigh a phugging tonne.
- khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@hockey
You think those are insane? goto unitednuclear.com and check out those magnets. Check out the warnings "You need to carefully plan your path if you walk thru a kitchen." grade N45/50 neodymium magnets are powerful. I've got a pair of their 3" diameter magnets, n45 grade. I drilled holes in them with titanium bits, attached straps, and I use those for doing pullups on metal surfaces when no upper support is available. I have to carry them around in shielded boxes, lest I risk getting drawn to the wall from just the nails in teh studs. - slipknotrobb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Domonoes, huh?
- voltree, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I demand 10 examples. 5 is not enough!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2alright. 4 videos most people have already seen, and two of them don't work, and then all topped off with a pretty boring case
buried. as. lame. - bquigly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2No kidding! Like the good vids! Tesla coil... way better that dominoes!!
- Apreche, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
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