I have taken apart a lot of hard drives and have many of those magnets. They are very strong. I use them for many things. They are hard to remove from the plate, but it can be done.
I had the same hard drive in my computer and it suffered the same death. It doesn’t exist anymore as I had it as a wall decoration, and it got scratched up so I kept the platters and threw the rest out
Such perfection. Even though they are slower, bulkier and more failure prone than SSDs, it's a shame HDDs are being replaced and with a good reason, at least at consumer level.
Reason why I am interested in dismantling these HD is harvesting the Neodymium magnets. These sweet babies are excellent as bolt & screw holders but you can utilize them in other ways. Like a ref magnet. Good luck prying it out once it sticks to the door.. :😂
It is complex and moving, which means it is susceptible to failure. I would like to use SSD's for media storage, but they are still too expensive for that. I hope there would be some sort of more reliable HDD replacement, a cheaper storage that is not as unreliable as spinning hard disks.
Do you know what size screwdriver you need for opening ? I opened the case but the bolts holding the disks are even smaller, too small for my scredriver.
i need to talk to an expert. since you take apart your harddrive, is it possible to clean up from defectiveness? i took apart one of my hardrive for extra memories. the hardrive worked for a while then out of the blue, it stopped working. i still believe it could be dirty and needs cleaning. i'm the type that keep cds in perfect condition since i'm pretty strict with having friends in my room playing videogames of kids. people tear up things so i'm very sensitive about it
Once you open up a hard drive, the inside gets contaminated and it can't be relied on anymore. There are data recovery firms with the necessary clean room and equipment to recover data off of damaged hard drives though.
Dude… I can’t believe it. Your hand is literally in the way on so many parts of this video. Most importantly, the final platter is what I’m stuck on. I cannot seem to remove the lowermost disk from my western digital assembly. And I was hoping that you would reveal what it takes to get it out. Everything else has been gutted. There’s nothing else to remove. just last platter, and the crown or hub that’s holding it in appears to have no screws - at least none that fit my collection of hexes.
What if this was a working HDD and you never left a fingerprint on the discs or did any sort of damage to it while taking it apart, but as you assambled it again, you installed the data discs in a different order, would your HDD stop functioning properly?
No, it would never work perfectly again, even if you took the cover off for a few seconds. All of those disks are synced together, and if they are out of alignment, the tracks and data on the disks do not match up. When the drive is manufactured the sectors and servo tracks (servo tracks tell the drive where it is on the disk so the drive can reliably store and retrieve information) are synced together so if any of the disks go out of alignment the drive will no longer even initialize and show up because the data does not match up. Hopefully this makes sense. Now on a drive with a single platter / disk this is not an issue because there is only one disk therefore it does not have to be in alignment or sync with other disks.
a great place to hide your secret stash of money or drugs, no wife thinks of touching husband's important data storage and no burglar has the thought that their victim hid valuable stuff inside these things...
The magnets are nice! Probably some of the strongest magnets you'll have around the house - maybe you can use it in some project where you need to hang something on the wall.
