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+-   Christmas tree made from 70 SCSI hard drives-> on Tuesday December 16 2008, @04:27PM Trigger

Submitted by Trigger on Tuesday December 16 2008, @04:27PM
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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 becaues 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. The tree 'branches' are made up of 189 platters, the middle column has around 60 platters. They still contain super secret confidential company data, so don't tell my boss... Had to work on it a little by little every day after work. Used epoxy glue which takes a day to set, so it was a matter of glue, wait a day, glue, wait a day, etc. Working on it every day after work, it took about 3½ weeks. It was made with limited tools whic consisted of pliers, screwdrivers, scissors, file, and a craft knife. Good times good times. For pics and videos visit http://www.nzgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81672"
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