Hard Drive 016

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    I think you can tell why his hard drive wasn't working. No data recovery possible.

    EverthonVS [BH-MG-Brasil], jcurtis4082, and 3 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. JohnWErvin 68 months ago | reply

      I've never seen the platters just shatter like that.

    2. jon_a_ross 67 months ago | reply

      I agree that this was very unusual. What's more so is that the guys story was that he was giving a presentation when it started to make a funny noise, blue screened and refused to boot.

    3. heebyjeebys 58 months ago | reply

      Hard Drive platters, will it blend?
      LOL
      That is very unushal.... Only thing i can think of is a hefty knock to make it shatter into a read head... but othewise probably just a defect drive.
      *note... must smash that old laptop hard drive i got lying around lol

    4. mark_simon 58 months ago | reply

      hdd can shatter, they are very hard (lol) hard disk drive :D

    5. joachip 58 months ago | reply

      Pass the glue please...

    6. Slava V. 54 months ago | reply

      Thank you for releasing this shot under CC license. Just wanted to let you know I've selected to display this image at 'Hard Drive' news page (it's my hobby site), full attribution and link to you is provided. Thank you once again.

    7. jon_a_ross 54 months ago | reply

      No worries, I enjoy sharing the images in my collection with anyone who wants them. As long as I get credit ;)

    8. Manu.1421 42 months ago | reply

      I've seen them shatter like that once, after I took a hammer to it ^^

    9. manhui2010 37 months ago | reply

      why its was smashed to pieces? that's a huge losses, really no data recovery

    10. Robert Little2000 30 months ago | reply

      Dude, we have like six ThinkPad's in this house, going back to the early days. Four are refurbs. What are the odds that one of those four have a Hitachi made, IBM branded hard drive? Hmmm.
      I'd be rather upset...

    11. jerome_Munich 30 months ago | reply

      This picture is used here:
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      I thought you might like to know.

    12. kalayana.tantri 26 months ago | reply

      Damn. Why not just remove the platters and sand them down on a belt sander? Be sure to demolish the flash chip on the controller board while you're at it.

    13. elrido 21 months ago | reply

      AFAIK 2.5" harddrive platters are often made of glass or ceramics, 3.5" ones mostly of aluminum (aluminum allows greater rotation speeds). So it seems plausible to have a notebook drive platter shatter.

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