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Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by surfrock66@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] icanwatermyplants@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Back in the day I bought a fridge freezer combo, second hand, no handles. Used to be a built in model. As handles I used two magnets from full height drives, they were ludicrously strong and shaped like a little bit like a handle.

Full height drives were 3.25" high for those who are wondering.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

This man self-hosts

[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I havest them for the BlooDisk God Linuxathor, we are not the same.

[–] erre@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

No but I wish I had been. 😑

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Stanley

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What are they made of anyways?? Could one see any etching marks with a microscope?

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 10 months ago

I used to. Magnets on old hard drives were better. Any drive I've taken apart over the last ten years or so are smaller and more brittle. Not as worth taking apart.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's amazing. Jaw dropping.

I thought I was cool for making a clock one time.

[–] blue_struct@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

I don't want to ruin your fun, but the last time I saw a post like this on reddit, the top comment was: "Don't open hard drives. They contain micro particles from wear and tear, that are as dangerous as asbestos."

Edit: I found the post and comment. The issue mentioned was the cobalt. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/17il3i3/comment/k6veo9c/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Edit2: I went and searched a bit. This meta-analysis says they found no increased cancer risk for exposure to cobalt particles. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230021001288

[–] Haha@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

If they were remotely any threat to human population it would of been banned.

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[–] olmium@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Considering they're covered in toxic shit, nope.

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