Free Hard drives, you pay shipping!

[macEfan]

I've got 3 hard drives that I've taken apart too look at and no longer need them.. Anyone want em for a project or something?

They are free, all you gotta do is pay for shipping and handling...

[bwanac]

So these dont work... and are 3.5"

[QuarterSwede]

He took the casing off, so they definitely don't work now.

[macEfan]

These are 3.5"... the third one still has its case on.. Its 30gb and works, but is noisy.. maybe you can use it :D

[mbl42]

I bet the two open ones spin up, so someone could use 'em for a cool mod or something.. :)

[macEfan]

if no one takes these by tonight, they're getting trashed... :(

[applemacdude]

are any of those maxtor.. and if they are do u have the screws?

[macEfan]

there are two western digital and one maxtor. The 30gb western digital is working, but its really noisy. The maxtor has a few screws left, but I lost the cover for 'em.
If your interestred, im in CA so shipping shouldn't be too bad :D

[sushi]

I bet the two open ones spin up, so someone could use 'em for a cool mod or something.. :)
I've spun up opened HDs.

Usually they will go a bit then shut down.

You can do this a few times and then they stop altogether.

Kind of fun to watch the arm move.

[imacintel]

I find it hard to believe that Hard Drives spin faster than a planes propat idle. The can spin faster than AirPlane props go.

[CoMpX]

I'll take an open one just to see how a hard disk looks opened up and running...pretty cool. I sent you a PM.
On a side note, what is the reason that hard drives will not run once opened? Dust contamination?

[sushi]

I'll take an open one just to see how a hard disk looks opened up and running...pretty cool. I sent you a PM.
On a side note, what is the reason that hard drives will not run once opened? Dust contamination?
When you take a HD apart, you will see that the head looks like it is touching the media (disc). But in reality, there is actually a space -- a very small space -- between the head and disc.

The HD is sealed at the manufacturer in a vacuum, or close to it.

When the mechanism is exposed to air, the air particles interfere with normal operation.

In the old days on mainframe computers the heads actually flew very close to the discs. A particle of smoke from a cigarette could cause a crash when it got between the head and disc. Seen the result of a catastrophic head crash. It wasn't pretty.