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Must be one of those new external drives.
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…one of those “jump drives” I’ve been hearing about.
Yeah, from Star Trek!
Whoa! Fun!
I know what I am doing this weekend…
How they fix it?
They made it fun.
holy cow i’ve never seen a drive with that many platters
that’ll be because they used the chassis & motor from an old style full-height drive, and they’ve taken out the read-write heads & arms and stacked as many platters as will fit onto the spindle with no spacers in between.
That’s one of these old server HDs, i think. I have two of them myself, build 1989, each 800Mb capacity. On spinning up they sound like turbines.
And a lot of people are using hard disks to build Tesla Turbines.
800MB in 1989? Nope…more like 80MB. My circa 1988/89 Seagate was full-height (twice as tall as later standard IDE drives). In the 80′s a drive the size of a hotel room fridge held 800 MB and required a cold RF free environment. Ah, the good old days. I’ve got more storage in my thumb drive than we had in the data center back then.
Loooooooooool!!!
lawl.
WAT
Now imagine doing that with one of the first-generation removable hard disk drives.
The ones that were the size of a washing machine and the platters were a dozen aluminum slabs in a huge “cake box” the size of the washer basket…
Yeah, I wouldn’t get in the way either.
I was told the old drum drives would come right through the wall if they failed, which purportedly they did often enough to help explain their speedy descent into obscurity.
I saw one of those fail on an IBM System/36 back in the mid-80′s. It was epic, especially the part where the read/write head got ripped off, ejected through the cabinet, and embedded itself in the cinderblock wall across the room, while the platters themselves became buzzsaws. Thankfully, they went out the backside of the cabinet, though the cinderblock wall, and into the parking lot.
Good times, good times.
If you remember the System 36, you may be asking – as I am – why is this on a raised floor ? There’s even a suction tile lifter. What’s REALLY going on here?
Well, I’m guessing that it’s a decommissioned computer room now stacked with junk some years after operations were outsourced to a hosted server farm, somewhere. Might be a college.
[Day-yam, SCAScot. I'm starting to believe that yoyo's story about the techs choosing to loiter outside where there might be snipers rather than stay in the bunker with that thing's (20 years earlier) predecessor.]
Now that’s the kind of thing I’d like to have on tape
awsome id liketo see that! (but not be in the way ofcourse
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I’d love to scrap some of those! I would probably save the patters for some mad science project that calls for a dozen Al slabs.
EPIC!
I’m having trouble with the physics here. The discs began about 3 feet off the floor. How can they get launched higher than the file cabinet? By conservation of energy, kinetic energy (motion) can NOT be greater than the potential energy (gravity from 3 feet off the floor) from which they started. They must have picked up energy other than just the gravitational energy from their initial fall. Is the floor slanted? I’m confused.
Because the discs were spinning when they were released, so on hitting the floor they took off. Recalculate potential energy of an aluminum disc spinning what, a few hundred rpm?
yes they get a decent pile of energy ofrom the fall. If you watch real nice though, it starts spinning already on the counter up top. Thats from whatever is inside spinning the disk when it operates
The disks have the kinetic energy of spinning at a few thousand rpm probably. You see them pick up speed as they gain some traction while rolling across the floor.
They are spinning when they leave the hard drive case that contains (and spins) them.
You’re restoring a bit of my lost faith in humanity. By knowing this, you’ve made my evening.
They are skidding along the way, and gaining traction. As they cross the floor, they continue to accelerate as the rotational speed decreases. Maybe when they are climbing the wall, they are no longer skidding.
They’re spinning VERY fast when they leave the drive. You can hear them “burning out” when they first touch the desk surface. They accelerate themselves off the table, race across the floor, and climb the ramp.
Because they’re steel and can’t get a very good grip on the desk or floor but still retain enough spin to catapult thum up the ramp which I assume has a different surface allowing the platters to get a better grip
What?? They fell from three feet, sure. And they bounced a little bit after they fell off the floor; that was their vertical energy. Their forward energy was the bit where they’re rolling, and it wasn’t translated into vertical energy until they hit the ramp at the end.
By your logic, we would never be able to go any more than a few feet off of ramps or half-pipes because the initial fall would be too hard to handle.
They were spinning extremely fast, and never got a complete grip on the tile floor. Thus, they did not travel as fast as they were spinning. But, when they hit the more easily-gripped ramp, they accelerated very fast, thus launching them higher than expected.
They were spinning at over 90 times a second when they were pushed out of the box. So they have plenty of energy to launch across the room.
My OLD hard disk drive.
Did that remind anyone else of Sonic? Or just me?
nope – you are not alone!
the old hedgehog..
I was just about to post about the same thing.
We should market this to the hardcore fans!
I hope he marked the order they were in.
I have to try this one day.
Take that AT&T! Who’s got the highest wireless data rate now?
If you put numbers on each of those discs and a finish line on the other end of the room, you could run a lucrative lunchtime betting parlor.
Really? I’d put vertical stripes, rather than a finish line, add a high-frequency camera, and see which one went highest.
Since they’re launched one at a time, no you couldn’t.
Am I the only sick bastard who wants to try that with circular saw blades?
Not anymore.
*Goes to the DIY store*
Brb.
A sawblade in HDD size? that’s gotta look cute
Seconded…
Sounds like fun
Just take a table saw, load a whole bunch of blades on there, lower the blades as low as they go, open the bottom, don’t fasten the nut all of the way, and enjoy
We’ll see you on failblog. All 35 pieces of you
With a bucket at the ramp, he can run an indoor washers tournament.
It’s not for fix it.
Anyone else thing of Sonic when they made the clinging noise from falling down after going up the ramp?
OMG! I HAVE TO HURRY AND PICK UP MY RINGS!
Be careful–I’ve had a few platters break like they were made of glass instead of aluminum.
That’s because the ones that broke are made from ceramic. Almost indistinguishable and very fragile.
The Screensavers (when they were around) made that mistake when doing a demo on destructive means of ensuring drives are unfit for use.
You should probably blow the dust off of them before putting them back in.
Cute enough,
but, what, exactly, is the “fix” here?
The fix is for workplace boredom after the HDD dies.
“There’s your problem!”
For a Second there, I was reminded of Inception.
I laughed like Ricky Ricardo when I saw this. I thought I was the only one.
No so much a kludge as a stunt, but it was funny to watch those platters roll up the wall anyways.
Ah, so thats how a Removable Disk looks like. Have some in my explorer, now I know what to look for…
Wow, I am doing that to fight the boredom of having no internet next week (with DVDs, they’re cheaper). It will be done several times, and I might even break out the camera to make a spoof video.
nice
Very cool. Now would someone in tech support please answer the damn phone. I’ve been in musak hell for 40 min.
What, somebody complaining about the service around here? Back of the queue for you!
The IT Crowd IRL
i was just doing this the other day actually! (seriously XD) but with a lame 3 platter drive though
its fun to put somthing infront of them and watch the platter fly into it and shatter 
Is that a hard drive?
I love how shiny and mirrorish they are, better quality than normal mirrors!
The magnets in them are strong too, like insane strong. If 2 gets stuck I need to pry them and it’s still difficult.
Now do that with shurikans!
Just FYI : I’m pretty sure that is a Micropolis 3.6GB HDD ( Yes, 3.6 GigaBytes. It’s not a typo)
Fun! This is fun.
I wish I could run such an experiment myself, but alas, my disk drives are all modern IDE (modern comparatively) and stuff.
Sonic the Hedgehog!!!
Lol!
Yeah there should have been a loop like the Green Hill Zone level!
Reminds me of what we used to do at the local computer recycling center. We’d regularly have a box of 250 or so different hard drive platters from dead hard drives, and we’d do crazy stuff with them. We’d use them as frisbees, roll them around like that (manually, though), and other shenanigans. Someone even figured out a way to use different-sized platters to make a little musical instrument that one played by whacking together platters on a smooth surface. That was, until someone got their forehead nicked by a flying platter.
Good times.