Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives 248
Trigger writes "At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array.
Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks performing a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all together with the servers, I decided to disassemble the hard drives and recycle them into something neat.
With a lot (a lot) of patience, I made this shiny Xmas tree.
In total there are around 70 old SCSI hard drives, between 9gb and 18gb in size each. They were nice and chunky, oldschool style. There were quite a few different hard drive models, which is good because they each had different bits which I could use. The Xmas tree is made with parts from hard drives only except for one nut which I had to purchase for $0.39." It's good to see that this guy has plenty to do at work.
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I'd really be impressed... (Score:5, Funny)
...if he had made 2 trees to run in RAID 0.
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Merry Christmas Hosting Provider_01
Re:This thread is useless without pics.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele (Score:5, Funny)
Only if you have root access.
Lots of work to do (Score:4, Funny)
As opposed to everybody else here who are so busy that they don't even have the time to look at Slashdot. Oh, wait...
Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
Someone formatted my Christmas tree!!
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And having it all in a tree makes it easier to search, too!
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That's [wikipedia.org] good [imdb.com] to [youtube.com] know! [images-amazon.com]
Four upmods please?
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele (Score:5, Funny)
We'll need a solution to the traveling reindeer problem to figure that out.
Re:I'd really be impressed... (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to Slashdot.
Re:Spinning tree of death. (Score:1, Funny)
The guy could have at least used some of the drive spindle motors to make it spin on its own.
Yeah, I want to see it spinning at 15K.
(from behind bulletproof glass)
Re:Merry Christmas from Jeff Spicoli (Score:2, Funny)
He has this ULTIMATE set of tools.
[citation needed] -love, Mom
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Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks performing a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all together with the servers, I decided to disassemble the hard drives and recycle them into something neat... The Xmas tree is made with parts from hard drives only except for one nut which I had to purchase for $0.39.
Sounds like you already had a nut - the one building the tree. I'm guessing you either:
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deltree /y
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Re:Question: are hard drive internals poisonous? (Score:4, Funny)
I take 'em to the rifle range... not much can be recovered after a bunch of 30 caliber holes appear in it...
You'd be surprised at the lengths to which the RIAA will go to gather evidence.
Re:I'd really be impressed... (Score:5, Funny)
It's amazing how little people know about rectal surgery...
Hey! It's great to see another Slashdotter with the same hobby as mine!
So, what are your views on anterior modifications of the Delorme procedure, which requires less operative dissection, I personally think it can be performed with results nearly equivalent to those of the established Delorme procedure in the treatment of rectal outlet obstruction secondary to internal intussusception with or without rectocele.
Or do you disagree?
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DOS Xmas (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele (Score:5, Funny)
I guess you would at least have access to some logs ...
Re:I'd really be impressed... (Score:2, Funny)
I suppose Raid 0+1 kills both ants and cockroaches.
What is Raid 5 for?
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I suppose Raid 0+1 kills both ants and cockroaches. What is Raid 5 for?
Franz Kafka
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Frankly I say "Merry Christmas" to everyone, in the spirit that I want whoever I am saying it to to be happy on Christmas regardless of what they are actually celebrating.
And therein lies the problem. Do you know how arrogant that statement sounds to a non-Christian? Not everyone wants your holiday or your holiday cheer, and it would be nice if more Christians respected that instead of demanding everyone be happy for them.
Re:Spinning tree of death. (Score:3, Funny)
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No, you don't want a Beowulf forest, because then you have to worry about Grendel showing up.
Re:This thread is useless without pics.... (Score:2, Funny)
It's not even straight!
Yeah, that is a gay Christmas tree.
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele (Score:5, Funny)
Redundancy, redundancy, how you protect your d444-t3rz!
Re:I'd really be impressed... (Score:3, Funny)
I have a friend who is a nurse. The most advanced procedure she can perform in this area is "digital extraction of fecal impaction."
No, I'm not making that up. And yes, I mean digital in the "base 10" sense!
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