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Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives
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.
Fir post!
...if he had made 2 trees to run in RAID 0.
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Thanks for posting. If that's the real deal, I'm not impressed. It's not even straight! Maybe he should have picked up some AOL Discs to make it full size.
Only if you have root access.
As opposed to everybody else here who are so busy that they don't even have the time to look at Slashdot. Oh, wait...
Why doesn't Slashdot ever get slashdotted?
Someone formatted my Christmas tree!!
Will that be pre-order, in-order, or post-order traversal?
Correctness matters. Mercy matters more.
fsck that!
Face your daemons!
And having it all in a tree makes it easier to search, too!
That's good to know!
Four upmods please?
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
We'll need a solution to the traveling reindeer problem to figure that out.
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)
He has this ULTIMATE set of tools.
[citation needed] -love, Mom
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:
deltree /y
Does "dismantel" mean "take something off the mantel"? I'm going to dismantel my Christmas cards around New Year's Day.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
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.
boo!
I can't even see it... slash-potted Please seed!
December 26th... time to run deltree
Remember kids, when you have the opportunity to make a funny about SCSI, you have to LUNge at it.
Be relentless!
I guess you would at least have access to some logs ...
While you guys had me on pins and needles waiting for the next clever post, I think I'm going to leave.
Now that Slashdot has toasted the rest of his servers, he has some more hard drives to make ornaments out of.
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
Always wondered what a directory tree looked like in a physical form
no matter how good it is, it is human nature always wants to make things better
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.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Wait for your coworkers to gather around it and then fire it up. Now that's what I call an office prank.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
No, you don't want a Beowulf forest, because then you have to worry about Grendel showing up.
It's not even straight!
Yeah, that is a gay Christmas tree.
Oh SCSI tree, oh SCSI tree, How shiny are your plaaaaat-ters!
Redundancy, redundancy, how you protect your d444-t3rz!
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
but he's dreaming of a wiped Christmas!