DeathStar Crash Log

[SidewinderX]

This has probably been posted before, but it didn't turn up in the search I did, and I'm sure there are people who haven't seen it...


http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html


clear.....

 

[PoorBehavior]

I never realized that they were plated plastic. The few I have taken apart were, or appeared to be solid metal.
Of course he might have just invented transparent metal, how cool would that be.

 

[defakto]

Don't they use cermanic for some of the platters now?

 

[PoorBehavior]

Ceramic, DUH, you are right, they are not plastic they are glass, i.e. ceramic.
Still, cool.

 

[Milez6]

actually it's on the homepage but who gives a crap anyways I think that its amazing that the things lasted a week like that! I mean just one or two particles of dust can cause a devistating head crash. the fact that there that worn down is amazing. and IBM claimed that the deskstar drives were in the accectable range of failure, bah!