Disk Platter Shooter

A uniquely entertaining device made from a useless Maxtor 6E040L0 Diamondcrash hard disk. (Every one of these I've ever purchased or obtained has failed, which is unusually bad, even for Maxtor.)

I have a much nicer one made from a failed Quantum XP32150 SCSI drive. It has several platters and a much stronger spindle motor.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• bad
• hard
• drive
• platter
• shooter
• fun
• dangerous

[Nomoreidsleft]

I have a DIamonMax Plus 9 (120GB), manufactured in 2003 that's still chugging away.

[uxwbill]

@Nomoreidsleft I have some Maxtor drives (new and old) that continue to work perfectly well. I'm not inclined to write all of them off. It seems like I've had more trouble with their drives failing than any other and the 6E040L0 has been unusually bad even by those standards.

[mgospeed31]

LOL looks like a good way to lose a finger. Sometimes, you gotta find entertainment in the most random shit.

[uxwbill]

The platters aren't actually sharp on the edges (although the ones in laptop drives are thinner and therefore might be). The worst risk you run is getting hit with one, but as you can see, they don't stay airborne for any length of time.

[itscool1968]

maxtor is now owned by segate the best drive maker around

[uxwbill]

Yeah, but I'm not sure the Maxtor side of the operation has improved. Once bitten, twice shy...that sort of thing.

[Jerkwad152]

Imagine doing that with a 15,000 RPM SCSI drive. :D

[tubageek2006]

i gotta try this with my deathstar drive



[Knaeckebrotsaege]

interesting enough, i've got a 6E040L0 40GB Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 8 that still works perfectly fine..

problem with those drives was that the firmware was stored on the platters, and a firmware bug let it go into safemode to prevent data loss... which unfortunately also blocks any access to the drive (not even the BIOS could recognize them).

Basically the same problem the Seagate 7200.11 drives have.

oh and BTW.. i'm still using DiMax Plus 9 & 10 drives in my main comp. much more reliable

[bscross32]

oh i got to try that lol

[CaseyRedDragon]

well i would take them apart. there are some good things in those hard drives like you can make things with platters and the magnets in them are pretty strong.

[ngtflyer]

Oh man I got a laugh from this! I have a stack of dead drives that grows over time as I work on computers, and wild guess which brand dominates this stack. When it gets up to around 30-40 drives, I take them over to a metal recycling place that has a big industrial shredder. I get to toss the dead drives into the shredder. :)

[hylander89]

WOW yea that is a good question! is the quality the same????

my grand mother used to have one of those big screens that pops out of the cabinet and wow sometimes I think the 80's were ahead of thier time with certain things......

[hylander89]

Oh Geez!