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Christmas Tree Made From Hard Drive Parts - Shiny!

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago

At our work we were decomissioning lots of old servers, they each had raid arrays made from lots of old hard drives.
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 of patience, I made this shiny xmas tree :)
In total there are around 60-70 old SCSI hard drives, between 9gb and 18gb in size each. The tree 'branches' are made up of 189 platters, the middle column has around 60 platters. They still contain super secret confidential company data!
Working on it every day after work, it took about 3½ weeks. It was made with limited tools (pliers and screwdrivers mostly), and it is all glued together with epoxy glue.
It was gifted it to my girlfriend to use instead a plain ol' non-shiny xmas tree. (From YouTube)

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Moving this video to Zifnab's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote spinny *music!

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by Krupo.

Adding video to channels (Music) - requested by Krupo.

Moving this video to Zifnab's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

A little late, and a little sideways, but *promote!

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by Krupo.

upvote for the music

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