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surfrock66@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

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Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

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surfrock66@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • Flixich@feddit.de
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    I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      You joke but early 90s we had exactly this with magneto optical drives

    • Nis@feddit.dk
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      Ah yes. The famous write-only backup solution :D

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    Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      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

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      I made a DRAM catcher once.

    • Pechente@feddit.de
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      I heard they keep data corruption away.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
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    This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.

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      Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?

      • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
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        Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?

    • surfrock66@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      This is just a less gross version of “DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions”?

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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        baffled glance…wot?

      • gmtom@lemmy.world
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        Unhinged comment.

  • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.works
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    Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:

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      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.

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        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.

        • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de
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          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.

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          I’ve done some of that, recently I have an old putty knife and I will put it right against the crack and just hammer it which will unstick it enough that I can pull it off. Newer drives definitely have weaker magnets than some of my much older ones.

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      Wow it looks like a light sweeper

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)

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    That’s a funny looking Stanley cup.

  • eldritch_horror@lemm.ee
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    just the magnets. They are very nice magnets.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      Likewise

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    Dude’s the Predator of the IT world

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      Pretty sure that title is firmly held by mcafe, even now.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    What

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    No

  • Yantantethera@lemmy.world
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    I use them as coffee mats…

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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      I do that with save icons!

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      The 3.5s make for excellent coasters lol

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        How do you keep them from sticking onto cups

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          Good question, but I’ve not had that issue so far

          I typically use yeti ramblers with a metal bases on them, though I’ve set ceramic mugs down on them too and they’ve not stuck. might depend on the drink a little?

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            Oh it’s probably vacuum sealed then so it doesn’t condensate

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              Maybe but I do spill a bit every now and then. Can’t speak for the regular ceramic mugs, though that’s a bit of a rarity and they just have herbal tea

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    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.

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      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.

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        Zombie apocalypse DIY railgun

  • Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Nope, but now I wish i did

  • DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml
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    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.

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      That’s very cool, do you have a picture of them?

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    And here I thought I had a lot of hdd platter coaster’s.

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      I have like 15 over the past decade and now I realize I am an ant to OP

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