New use for recycled hard drive parts

Pretty sure those magnets came out of a hard drive
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-unknowingly-takes-30-pounds-pot-across-u-144432116.html

 

I'm pretty sure they didn't. Magnets like that will wipe a drive.

 

i can assure you hdd magnets are mega strong, cant tell the scale but those look a little big, yeah think they came out of speakers

 

They are definitely HDD magnets. You can tell by the crescent shape and pegs on the ends. Speaker magnets are circular or solid disk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet

While I'm not surprised something like that happened, it's still scary to think about things like that going on. Especially when that can happen to any of us.

 

thought they might be broken speaker magnets. the only hdd magnets ive seen are maybe 2 centimeters long

 

I'm gonna break an old hard drive an see :knock:

 

Only when pointed towards the plates, which they aren't. They are used to control the drive head, which "floats" left and right and is way faster than a mechanical servo. Just open an old or broken hard drive and see, they have been like that for decades

 

I see a woman unknowingly transported 30lbs of weed from that link
ehh nevermind see it now

 

Those sure look like neodymium magnets found inside a HDD.

 

Deff HDD Magnets.

An ex girlfriend of mine chucked my keys down the drain out side my house one night when it was raining hard.
I was not in the mood to wait for them to be flushed along the pipe under the road so I ran indoors.
Grabbed a chisel, hammer & a dead HDD.

I then removed the screw heads on the cover to get access to the stupidly strong magnet inside.
I then broke a bit of the magnet off its mount (1cm chunk) tied a piece of cotton
to it. Wrapped it in some sticky tape to hold it to the cotton. Then I pulled the drain grate off,
dropped the magnate down & on the 1st try I got my keys back. Which was cool.
Due to the fact that roadside drains are a bit wide & fairly deep.

I actually recommend you all have a look at those magnets as they are cool. :nerd:

 

That's reportedly a ~5lb package. HDD magnets are a fraction of the size of those on the package.

 

You can gauge proportions based on the width of Duck tape.

Duck tape comes in two widths, 1.9" & 2"

In the photo the magnets are longer than the width of the Duck tape.

HDD magnet. (It looks quite similar to the ones used on that package. They're strong magnets, I wouldn't doubt if 8 of them are capable of holding up 5lbs on a car.)

 

for those having problems figuring out why the magnets are so big..

5.25" (CD-Drive bay) sized quantum hard drives. And other ODD drive size hdd's have much larger magnets than the 2.5"(laptop) and 3.5"(desktop) HDD drives.

I have a bunch of these HDD magnets, i always gut them out of dead harddrives that don't have any warranties on them.