Worst hard drive crash I've seen

[Marshalus Veteran]

We pulled a bad drive apart at work this afternoon. It had a nasty rattle to it before we opened it, but we didn't expect this:

Edit: Just in case you're wondering, the drive was a Quantum Fireball CR 8.4 AT

Edited February 27, 2008 by Marshalus

[Lant]

Wow, thats one destroyed HDD.

[Blaine]

Wow :| metal shavings everywhere

....but the question is.... will it blend? :shiftyninja:

[StevoJD]

Slim chance of recovering the data from it, I'd guess. :p

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

holy schnizzle...

[Minimoose]

Nice :)

[timmmay]

Holy crap..what did you do to that poor hard drive!! :cry:

[sTIMPZ]

That's pretty messed up! Just how bad was the noise it had been making?

[null_]

Damn, that drive committed suicide pretty hard.

[Neil]

Bad, how old was that drive?

[Brian M. Veteran]

Youch!

That looks pretty damn bad :(.

[Nashy]

What the.... how? Why?... HOW!?

[+virtorio MVC]

Wow :| metal shavings everywhere

....but the question is.... will it blend? :shiftyninja:

Of course, it's not a Chuck Norris action figure.

[Max Veteran]

What make was the HDD?

[bloodrain]

pr0n overload.

[Simon Veteran]

Whoa, that's pretty nasty...

[RedFlow]

Haha all the years of abuse. I mean also that noise must've been the same level as a saw slicing an iron bar in half... Haha

[Jimmy0]

Wow! :|

[RuudJacobs.NET]

The best way to hide for RIAA/MPAA so far :laugh:

[TEX4S]

the thing is, it almost looks like it was opened before and not in a clean room - maybe some contaminents or even liquids got in there ??

I dunno - Im just trying to figure out how in the world something could get THAT FUBAR !

I guess this is another vote for SSD around the corner :)

the 64 Gb MITRON is 2x as fast as a Raptor RAID 0 .... and no moving parts !!!

[1Frothy]

What brand was that Hard Disk? Was the PC even working with it? That is just totally nuts. OMG

[DigitalE]

Wow.

Make sure you save the magnets; hard drive magnets are awesome. :p

[randy_tho]

.... so I slapped everything back together, fired up Spinrite in Level 2. Three hours later, the computer booted and all data was recovered!

:shiftyninja:

[The Rev]

.... so I slapped everything back together, fired up Spinrite in Level 2. Three hours later, the computer booted and all data was recovered!

:shiftyninja:

Bull..... sh**. :p

[NoneAvail]

Holy ****, did you dip that HDD in cow urine? lol... looks like the discs broke off when spinning... just like when CDs spin too fast they break.