{"id":384,"date":"2007-11-06T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2007-11-06T16:17:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:17:20","slug":"how-not-to-dismantle-a-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/384\/how-not-to-dismantle-a-hard-drive","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Dismantle a Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the platters in most hard disk drives these days are made of glass?  Neither did I, until last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/shattered\/shattered_disk_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/shattered\/shattered_disk_small.jpg\" alt=\"Shattered Glass Hard Disk Platter\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What ever happened to good &#8216;ole fashioned aluminum discs?  Thanks to a particularly rash and forceful extrication technique, I managed to spray bits of shattered, data-covered glass over half of my garage.  Luckily, the pieces weren&#8217;t very sharp, as manufacturers apparently mix in some ceramic for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering about the whole scene to begin with, here&#8217;s the scoop:  The drive was bad.  I was after the wonderful, super-powerful neodymium magnets that reside within every modern hard drive (they&#8217;re part of the drive&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storagereview.com\/guide2000\/ref\/hdd\/op\/actActuator.html\" target=\"_blank\">voice coil actuator assembly<\/a>).  I had previously given my entire hard disk magnet collection to my dad for use in his seismograph dampening system (doh!), so, naturally, I wanted some more.  In the end, I got them &#8212; along with a room full of glass, a pretty picture, and a story to tell the grandkids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the platters in most hard disk drives these days are made of glass? Neither did I, until last week&#8230; What ever happened to good &#8216;ole fashioned aluminum discs? Thanks to a particularly rash and forceful extrication technique, I managed to spray bits of shattered, data-covered glass over half of my garage. Luckily, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-technology-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}