You’ve no doubt seen clocks made from old hard drives that were kept mostly intact. Many makers including [Jeremy] will extract the shiny platters to use as bases for clock faces and engrave the ...

[Jipa] over at MetkuMods put up an original re-use for old hard ... drives the spindle doesn’t generate much torque, but once the drive is spinning fast enough, the inertial force of the platter ...

Unlike a conventional disk-based hard drive, which stores data on a spinning platter or platters accessed by a moving magnetic head, an SSD uses a collection of flash cells—similar to the ones ...

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