r/techsupportgore • u/Beginning_Score_9866 • 20d ago

I removed between 8 and 10 hard drives.

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I got tired of the glass, so I took them off.

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u/CheesecakeMountain63 Must still work, right? 20d ago

What glass?

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u/broesel314 20d ago

The platters of 2.5" hard drives are sometimes made of glass

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u/skidz007 20d ago

It’s my favorite way to decommission laptop hard drives…smashing it and shaking to hear if you were successful.

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u/monkeyboywales 19d ago

This is the way. Lump hammer all the way, ithrn you're sure! Only if the HDD is basically no use a ore though tbf

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u/nickXIII 17d ago

Found this out the hard way when on shattered and sliced my hand open real bad!

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u/Beginning_Score_9866 20d ago

I'm using Dude Translate, there might be a misunderstanding.

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Developer scum 20d ago

Try Lass Translate, maybe that works better.

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u/No_Adhesiveness_5727 19d ago

What a damn mess. Now just put em back together so to speak.

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u/mochiladecriancaa 20d ago

so... 9 hard drives?

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u/Vanbursta1 20d ago

Presumably he removed them from existence.

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u/TheRedZephyr993 20d ago

Hey you have the same driver kit (to the left under the platters) as me!

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u/scoldog 19d ago

'Removed' Mafia style

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u/PPEytDaCookie 17d ago

Please don't do these things to IDE HDDs, they are getting harder and harder to find...

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u/Beginning_Score_9866 17d ago

i regret nothing

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u/Webbanditten 19d ago

I'm building some star wars panels with friends. I'd love to use some of those pieces for greeblies!

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u/Beginning_Score_9866 19d ago

Dude, I live in Türkiye and I'm using Google Translate, but the translation is wrong.

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u/narielthetrue 17d ago

Here’s the Wikipedia page for what they’re talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

Hopefully it has a translation to your language