http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/

3/23/2010 1:27:23 PM

somebody must have really wanted that data gone

3/23/2010 1:35:54 PM

I hear helicopters approaching...

3/23/2010 1:39:40 PM

didn't this happen to every DeathStar? that's why they were aptly called such.

so i guess they didn't recover any data, huh. nothing like realigning magnetic dust particles to recover a drive.

3/23/2010 1:40:13 PM

hahah holy shit

3/23/2010 3:06:39 PM

wow, that's actually pretty cool, other than the whole complete data loss thing.... i never knew the platters were glass?

3/23/2010 3:22:46 PM

wow

3/23/2010 3:47:20 PM

crash

catastrophic failure

3/23/2010 9:27:32 PM

no one's taken apart a HDD before? I thought that was like nerd 101...

3/23/2010 9:47:36 PM

trollbait

3/23/2010 9:59:43 PM

one bonus is that you have to buy a set of torx drivers if you want to take one apart... the benefits keep growing

torx drivers are mandatory tools for any self respecting nerd

3/23/2010 10:10:50 PM

Quote :

"torx drivers are mandatory tools for any self respecting nerd"

haha, true

yet everyone at work seems to constantly be borrowing mine

3/23/2010 10:44:40 PM

what is that blue goo in the hdd called? A friend had a similar issue and I was all like abuh blue goo eat it.

3/24/2010 1:09:39 AM

bearing fluid

3/24/2010 7:42:08 AM

muffler bearing fluid you say?

3/24/2010 8:33:57 AM

That is sucky/awesome.

3/24/2010 10:24:36 AM

3/24/2010 10:29:27 AM

My dad had 2 of these drives. There was a class action suit over these a long time ago.

3/27/2010 8:25:58 PM