Uses for dead Hard Drives

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

I am trying to think of a creative way to use the platters, magnets, and/or the bearing/motor thing. I am having a mental block and can't think of anything. If you guys have any ideas I would love to hear them.

[Speedyv]

Doorstop

[thekeemo]

[alby800]

Throw them at people you don't like

[W-L]

I am trying to think of a creative way to use the platters, magnets, and/or the bearing/motor thing. I am having a mental block and can't think of anything. If you guys have any ideas I would love to hear them.

 

Steal the magnets and play frisbee with the platters?

 

I've seen some clocks made from the platters.

[GlassBomb]

You can use the platters for coasters

[Thebman712]

Coaster

[dadasmithywinkle]

I have like 50 old sata 80GB drives and dont know what to do with them...

[Bloodyvalley]

I would play with the magnets or scrap it for cash

[DeViLzzz]

It could be used as a murder weapon, scrap metal and scrap whatever else is in there for cash, etc.

[WinNut]

Throw it into the brake fluid reservoir on a car that belongs to someone you don't like and drain it so that the car has a hydraulic brake failure.

[STRMfrmXMN]

All you need is fire and anything becomes fun.

 

Also, recycling.

[dragoon20005]

if the read write can still move you can make music out of it

[Guest]

Use hot glue and a large sheet of plywood, take the various pieces of a harddrive to artistically recreate your memories. It doesn't have to look like anything, because it's creative as fuck (but when asked, say you prefer to think of it as "re-creative" because you didn't really build anything, you are a prism which merely displays a sort of reality)

 

Then dress like a hipster and sell it off for 150k. You're rich now.

[Frankie]

Use hot glue and a large sheet of plywood, take the various pieces of a harddrive to artistically recreate your memories. It doesn't have to look like anything, because it's creative as fuck (but when asked, say you prefer to think of it as "re-creative" because you didn't really build anything, you are a prism which merely displays a sort of reality)

 

Then dress like a hipster and sell it off for 150k. You're rich now.

 

10/10

[Guest]

Put the hard drive under someones bed while they are sleeping. Then remove all the batteries from the smoke detectors and set the bed on fire.

[Guest DollarPC]

Burn em'

[TetraSky]

I made a coaster with a plater, sitting right next to me, glued to the desk, all shiny and stuff.

I found the magnet in the drive wasn't as strong as the one Barnacles shows in his video, though... So I just put them aside for now... maybe I will have some use for them one day... probably not.

[watts300]

I am trying to think of a creative way to use the platters, magnets, and/or the bearing/motor thing. I am having a mental block and can't think of anything. If you guys have any ideas I would love to hear them.

I use them to hang various things on my cubicle walls at work.  

 

My telephone headset is hung by one, as well as my awesome bacon calendar from my mom, and a Jinx poster.   

On the adjacent cube wall, I have two more holding the bottom corners of an autographed SciShow poster. 

I've got a read/write armature and platters floating around the desk somewhere.  

 

[Noxxx]

the magnets are fun to play with

[phillrulz]

The platters are suuuuuper reflective like the most perfect mirror you will see, make a death ray using the sun and blind people.

[Phillyphries]

You can use the VERY strong magnet in the HDD to use as a stud finder in any drywall. It's excellent for that.

[-CLASSIFIED-]

use them as a hockey puck 

[dadasmithywinkle]

RAID...

 

How many drives can I run in raid 0 on my X99 board?

[phillrulz]

RAID...

I could get hundreds of SCA hard drives from work hundreds off raid cards and hundreds of gigs of EEC memory ... Problem is I only know of one dual processor board I can get from work.