[Nottingham] What do to with dead HDDs? Reuse, recycle, dump?

[Martin]

Thanks for that, but I'm rather uninspired by those examples for my
interests.

Surfing around there's various 'ornamental' ideas but nothing I've found
that usefully makes use of the actuators and motors for anything
'interesting' or 'fun'.

The only 'fun' stuff I have found to my liking is reusing various old
disk drives for recreating old computer music... By hey, that's been
well thrashed by others on YouTube.

Hence, unless any inspiration can be gained later today, the multiple
duff disks are to be impaled and scrapped...


Thankfully, I've nothing of the scale of this 'little' hoard:

This guy has a PROBLEM - Tech Hoarders
https://youtu.be/hiLlNzxDfAg?t=178


Ideas welcomed!

Cheers,
Martin



On 02/02/2020 19:02, VM wrote:
> This is what people do with dead drives
> https://www.instructables.com/id/Hard-Drive-Clock-1/
> 
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> On February 2, 2020 12:34:24 AM UTC, Martin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've a few dead 3.5" HDDs...
>>
>> They include some chunky metalwork and, motors, and fast actuators...
>>
>>
>> Any good alternate uses or simple scrap?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
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