New use for recycled hard drive parts

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  1. bigpipe

    bigpipe Watson Guru

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    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
     
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    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.
     

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    thought they might be broken speaker magnets. the only hdd magnets ive seen are maybe 2 centimeters long
     
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    I'm gonna break an old hard drive an see :knock:
     
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    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 :D
     
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    I see a woman unknowingly transported 30lbs of weed from that link
    ehh nevermind see it now
     
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    Those sure look like neodymium magnets found inside a HDD.
     
  10. Paul L

    Paul L Maha Guru

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    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:
     

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    That's reportedly a ~5lb package. HDD magnets are a fraction of the size of those on the package.
     
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    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.)
    [​IMG]
     
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    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.
     

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