Inside a Hard Drive

[gamerx365]

drop a little paint on the disk! yay!

[computeruler]

omg now that would be cool! or hit it!

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

drop a little paint on the disk! yay!

No thanks.

[BC_Programmer]

yeah... couldn't you drop paint onto ANY disc? what special significance would it have to drop some on a hard disk platter?

[gamerx365]

because it goes really fast! lol. um. I dont know, its black and neon colored paint would look cool.

[soybean]

Hmm, defragmenting is hard work.   

Carbon, is that hard drive still functional?  Is all data still intact, no data corruption?   Being exposed with the hard drive case open, even tiny dust particles will cause problems, right?  So, I would expect you will see data corruption or other problems quite soon.

[Raptor]

You should have put a plastic cap over it. It might keep running for years if you do it in a low dust environment. (EG: a plastic bag)

[Dead_reckon]

Yeah, I agree with Raptor. The only drive I've had apart are some dead ones, aside from one live one that was 500MB..

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I was surprised to see it still works properly. No corruption, no data loss, nothing.

When I turn it off, I put it's cover on and when it's on, you wouldn't believe how fast it spins.
If you put your finger next to the platter, you can feel the wind it's making. I doubt any dust will land on it.

Anyways, it's a 800mb Hard Drive from ~1993 and I don't really care if it breaks or not.

[mcxeb52!]

amazing how technology lasts. I have an old dell p3, my dad uses it and it runs win 2000 just fine! It's like my computer I use now except it has a CRT monitor and it's much slower given it's 7 years old!

[Dead_reckon]

I just got a old Shannon 486 office PC, AMD K5 based AT system. ANCIENT, dunno if it works, but if it does, it'll be a miracle. Anyway, some things last, some things don't.

[BC_Programmer]

it'll be a miracle.

Dunno about that; I have some old equipment myself- I'd have a 286 if I didn't go and scrap it last year (it still worked perfectly... well, as perfect as a 286 can, anyway).

I guess it depends on the environment it's been operated under.

[patio]

I can lay claim to almost every generation of Intel based chips....most still run if i choose to fire them up. 286; 386; 486;  a first generation Pentium that had a built in math co-processor fault ( still use it ).

I never realised how fast all this time flew.
BC i'm impressed you still have a 286

[paudashlake]

this is pretty cool

If only I didn't throw out all of my old hard drives=(

[BC_Programmer]

BC i'm impressed you still have a 286

well, "had" a 286; I scrapped it, silly bugger that I was. Ahh, I remember it's hardware- a Hercules Monochrome graphics adapter, and- um, other stuff, too.

My first computer, it was; a good 6 years ago, I used it regularly. Ironically when my current rig was manufactured...

Then I had a giant 386 server- about twice the size of a standard case; at a blazing 40Mhz.

gotta remember the days of using a soldering iron to double floppy disk capacity; place a hole on the side opposite the write-protect tab on a 720K(cheaper) disk, and BAM- double-size.

I remember my old Computer science teacher gave me the 386; he had personally modified the floppy drive to save him time burning holes in the floppies, and instead removed the photosensitive detection thingy and replacing it with a front-mounted switch.

Of course, it made it imperative to be careful not to bump it while using it.

this is pretty cool

If only I didn't throw out all of my old hard drives=(

heh, I sit here, and I stare at my gargantuan 50MB hard drive... with the affectionate letters written on top, D, U,D. How untrue that proved to be, when it still works fine. (the person I got it from claimed "you can try it, but it probably won't work". lol.