Being in my company's storage-admin group (among others) means I end up with plenty of dead hard drives to play with -- so I've been disassembling them. It turns out the faster/better/iops-i-er ones have more physical platters in them. A cheap SATA drive will often have just one, where the SAS and FC ones have five, or in some cases three.I wanna make the loose platters into an art project. I used to have a clock I made from an old 7" platter. If I can figure out how to hack up the heads with a jig-saw, they'd make excellent clock hands.
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