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This man self-hosts

I do that to my dead drives, but I’ve only had one fail that wasn’t an SSD. Moreso because the washers that separate the platters have a very satisfying ring to them that makes me keep them as a fidget toy.

I use the magnets to hold screws, it works great for that.

Unfortunately, SSDs have less interesting parts, so I just take them apart to destroy the chips after failure

I've been lucky enough to not have a drive die on me yet.

Holy crap. I don’t, but after seeing that I think I’ll need to start

Dude's the Predator of the IT world

I use old platters to hang around our chicken houses. The idea is to distract hawks and eagles with the sparkle as they spin in the breeze... Probably doesn't work, but I like the shiny disks :)

That's a funny looking Stanley cup.

Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.

I havest them for the BlooDisk God Linuxathor, we are not the same.

Nope, but now I wish i did

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.

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.

Magnets, yes. Great for the fridge!

I used to make clocks with the platters and give them to friends and family. Michael's used to sell inexpensive clock mechanisms that looked really cool against the platter background. I haven't seen them lately, but I'm sure someone sells them online.

In a distant post-apocalyptic future, the survivors will use hard drive platters as a currency.

I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s

Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.

Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.

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

I will keep the magnets if I ever get into this in the future, but not the platters. I'll just safely destroy them and dispose of them.

So far I only had 3 laptops and no desktops. I had 0 HDD failures, since I only ever had 3 of them so far.
The oldest one is more than 17 years old 80GB 2.5" Fujitsu HDD.

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

I use them as coffee mats...