Worst hard drive crash I've seen

[Marshalus Veteran]

I never saw (or heard) the drive when it was in a system. It was in a stack of drives that were ripped out of a bunch of Dell GX260/270s that had somehow made it into our server room. Last week we were cleaning up and found this stack of drives, and I carried them down to my office. Our network admin was in my office and started examining the stack of drives and found this one. We opened it up right there in my office and I watched him break the little "warranty void if removed" type seal over one of the torx screws. It had never been opened prior to this.

My guess is that it was a Seagate, as most of the drives from that model system are but I will find out tomorrow.

[+Mystic MVC]

Looks like a minor scratch to me nothing that can't be repaired....:p

[L3thal Veteran]

Good thing the hard drive was inside your case or else all the debris would've shot right at you :p

[monkey13]

This is why I don't let my hard drives smoke.

[insanekiwi]

good god, that sure looks destroyed!

[qdave]

that looks fun. i hope yo didnt loose any data.

but this must have been going on for a while.

[ACTIONpack]

See kids, drugs are bad. :devil:

[CelticWhisper]

Looks like a minor scratch to me nothing that can't be repaired....:p

Aye, 'tis only a flesh wound!

[spenser.d]

It's probably an RIAA brand hard drive. Someone tried ripping a song from a CD to that drive and it destroyed itself... :shiftyninja:

-Spenser

[Marshalus Veteran]

The drive was older then I thought, but still interesting.

It was a Quantum Fireball CR 8.4 AT out of an old Gateway PII.

[Novaoblivion]

Those Quantum Fireball's were called that for a reason hehe. I have never seen one that dead before though!

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

well, the hard drive didn't crash, it exploded!

[?AK]

Omg, that's worst than looking pics at ogrish... :s :p

[CelticWhisper]

Omg, that's worst than looking pics at ogrish... :s :p

If Jigsaw went after hard drives, that's what it would look like.

"I want to play a game...no, not that one, stop loading WoW."

[Geranium_Z__NL]

Thats why i dont have Maxtor XD

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Woah - what the hell happened to that?

[spacer]

A Quantum Fireball CR 8.4 AT huh? Looks like that HDD WAS a fireball. Good God I've seen some damaged drives in my day, but that one takes the cake.

[kingofthecarts]

Ya, this one is really screwed up, but hey, it lived up to it's name. Good old Fireball :)

[(Spork)]

:o

[That Guy Veteran]

This is why they only let you burn things to CD.

I can just imagine:

"*sniff* Hey guys, what's that funny smell, and where's that noise coming from?"

"Aye, nothing to worry about."

Day after...

[+Warwagon MVC]

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

I actually LOL'ed on that one.

Hard drive smoke, don't breath it!

You should email that to Steve Gibson.

Edited February 26, 2008 by warwagon

[ViperAFK]

Massive head crash? lmao that thing got pwnt.

[+shift. MVC]

Holy.....I'm speechless. Is that even.....possible? (Rhetorical question since pictures clearly indicate it is)

[kronik]

Looks like your hard drive copped it hard

[Sam Symons Veteran]

Wow :| metal shavings everywhere

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

Bwa ha. That made me laugh :D