Things to do with 20 old hard drives

I have twenty 3.5″ hard drives collecting dust in my garage (10Gb and all working) and I will use them to do things. What things I haven’t decided yet, but I already have a couple of ideas. The first one is almost finished and will be posted here in a day or two. -But- I need your help to come up with more ideas! We have 20 nice shiny discs, as many read/write heads complete with arm, 40 very powerful magnets, and so on. It’s actually only the imagination that sets the limits. In this first part we go through the, maybe trivial but vital, task of taking the drive apart in its components without damaging anything. Read more in Things to do with 20 hard drives

4 Responses to “Things to do with 20 old hard drives”

1. David Says:
   December 7th, 2005 at 2:51

   Actually, I’ve been looking for a quantity of 10’s very CHEAP! What would you take?

2. Chris J. Says:
   December 7th, 2005 at 9:00

   Nice to hear that someone is actually interested in them.
   But sorry, they’re designated to be slaughtered and made into things… That’s more fun then selling them CHEAP!

3. Pete Says:
   December 15th, 2005 at 20:56

   Funny, I have a similar pile of similar sized disks.

   Chipped any xboxes lately?

4. Peter Says:
   May 13th, 2006 at 16:17

   Harddrive shuffleboard!

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