I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s
You joke but early 90s we had exactly this with magneto optical drives
Ah yes. The famous write-only backup solution :D
Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.
I made a wind chime once that I really loved. Had to dirty the plates because they could catch the sun well enough to vaporize your retinas
I made a DRAM catcher once.
I heard they keep data corruption away.
Oh wow!
This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.
Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?
Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?
Fair, my home office is a monument to too much free time, a hoarding habit for ewaste, and a wife who works weekends and overnights.
This is just a less gross version of “DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions”?
Unhinged comment.
No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)
That’s a funny looking Stanley cup.
Dude’s the Predator of the IT world
Pretty sure that title is firmly held by mcafe, even now.
just the magnets. They are very nice magnets.
Likewise
What
No
Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.
Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.
If you wind a 2 or 3 layer pancake coil the size of the platter out of 12 or 14AWG magnet wire and dump a couple kJ through it from a capacitor bank, the platter will launch into the air. Don’t try it indoors unless you want a platter embedded in the ceiling.
Zombie apocalypse DIY railgun
I don’t have the space to hoard garbage.
I use them as coffee mats…
I do that with save icons!
The 3.5s make for excellent coasters lol
How do you keep them from sticking onto cups
Good question, but I’ve not had that issue so far
I typically use yeti ramblers with a metal bases on them, though I’ve set ceramic mugs down on them too and they’ve not stuck. might depend on the drink a little?
Oh it’s probably vacuum sealed then so it doesn’t condensate
Maybe but I do spill a bit every now and then. Can’t speak for the regular ceramic mugs, though that’s a bit of a rarity and they just have herbal tea
Nope, but now I wish i did
No, because I am worried the NSA may try to collate data from them. In fact, I zero-wipe, drill bit the drives in the platters and the PCB, and drop them off at e-waste for recycling.
Holy crap. I don’t, but after seeing that I think I’ll need to start
