[Leica] Cleaning a Hard Drive

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Good idea for a new sport (replacing tree chopping :-)



Op 7-sep-06, om 18:53 heeft Jim Nichols het volgende geschreven:

> Several days ago there was a thread about cleaning a hard drive  
> before releasing it to salvage.  I decided to "clean" a failed  
> Western Digital Caviar drive because Dell is conducting a one-time  
> pick-up of all brands of computer hardware in Nashville on  
> Saturday.  I tried the 8-pound hammer approach and was amazed at  
> the toughness of the metal top.  Because I did not have a Torx  
> driver small enough to open the case, I hammered it until it split,  
> then put in a vise and used some other tools to distort the disk  
> itself.  See the results below.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hard+Drive.jpg.html
>
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