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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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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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I will keep the magnets if I ever get into this in the future, but not the platters. I'll just safely destroy them and dispose of them.
So far I only had 3 laptops and no desktops. I had 0 HDD failures, since I only ever had 3 of them so far.
The oldest one is more than 17 years old 80GB 2.5" Fujitsu HDD.
The magnets are fantastic for tool mounts since they’re so strong
Back in the day, I'd go through HDDs faster than systems-always needed to add storage before I could replace the CPU. I didn't start disassembling them until they got up to the 500 _M_B range, but you'd often get 3 platters back then. OP must be harvesting from a whole workgroup - I've only got a 3cm stack and 7 drives waiting for the screwdriver.