Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

Evil_Shrubbery, 1 year ago

Macabre.

Yet also (bitter-)sweet, those drives gave everything they had for you, it’s only right to honor their memory & remember them.

I just open the drives & put them on shelves.

node815, 1 year ago

The older IDE drives with the 5.25" platters and smaller ones make great wind chimes. The laptop ones are a bit .ore fragile due to thinner material. Years ago, we used to do this with a few of them.

possiblylinux127, 1 year ago

I use SSDs

XTL, 1 year ago

Yes. Got to admit mine just isn’t as big as yours, though.

PerogiBoi, 1 year ago

No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)