Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives

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Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @05:39AM from the free-time dept.

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.

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Had to - by Colourspace · 2008-12-17 05:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Fir post!
I'd really be impressed... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-17 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

...if he had made 2 trees to run in RAID 0.
1. Re:I'd really be impressed... by theemadnes · 2008-12-17 06:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  RAID 0? For Christmas trees? Sure, it'd be mighty impressive, but if only one of the trees goes down, you've ruined Christmas for everyone.
2. Re:I'd really be impressed... by shadow349 · 2008-12-17 06:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's amazing how little people know about ....
  
  Welcome to Slashdot.
3. Re:I'd really be impressed... by rodrigoandrade · 2008-12-17 06:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Little people usually know more about PCs than their parents.
4. Re:I'd really be impressed... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-17 06:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's amazing how little people know about rectal surgery...
  Hey! It's great to see another Slashdotter with the same hobby as mine!
  So, what are your views on anterior modifications of the Delorme procedure, which requires less operative dissection, I personally think it can be performed with results nearly equivalent to those of the established Delorme procedure in the treatment of rectal outlet obstruction secondary to internal intussusception with or without rectocele.
  Or do you disagree?
5. Re:I'd really be impressed... by dcsmith · 2008-12-17 08:02 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I suppose Raid 0+1 kills both ants and cockroaches. What is Raid 5 for?
  Franz Kafka
  
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Re:This thread is useless without pics.... by MadEmperor · 2008-12-17 05:56 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-17 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Only if you have root access.
Lots of work to do by Jeff+Hornby · 2008-12-17 06:03 · Score: 3, Funny

It's good to see that this guy has plenty to do at work.
As opposed to everybody else here who are so busy that they don't even have the time to look at Slashdot. Oh, wait...

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Oh no! by Antony-Kyre · 2008-12-17 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone formatted my Christmas tree!!
1. Re:Oh no! by MarkRose · 2008-12-17 07:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Was that all you had left? Did someone raid all your funny hard drive jokes? ;-)
  
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Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by Chris+Mattern · 2008-12-17 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

And having it all in a tree makes it easier to search, too!
Re:This thread is useless without pics.... by cbiltcliffe · 2008-12-17 06:28 · Score: 3, Funny

That's good to know!
Four upmods please?

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Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by Austerity+Empowers · 2008-12-17 06:39 · Score: 4, Funny

We'll need a solution to the traveling reindeer problem to figure that out.
Must be the BOFH by hotdiggitydawg · 2008-12-17 06:51 · Score: 3, Funny
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:
- grossly exaggerated the business requirement for a DoD-level wipe; or
- have BOFH-style job security; or
- better polish up your CV once your boss realises what you've done
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-17 06:52 · Score: 4, Funny

deltree /y
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by Gospodin · 2008-12-17 06:56 · Score: 3, Funny

Does "dismantel" mean "take something off the mantel"? I'm going to dismantel my Christmas cards around New Year's Day.

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Re:Question: are hard drive internals poisonous? by Voyager529 · 2008-12-17 06:57 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by xaositects · 2008-12-17 07:00 · Score: 3, Funny

boo!
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by rockbottoms · 2008-12-17 07:19 · Score: 3, Funny

I can't even see it... slash-potted Please seed!
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by makapuf · 2008-12-17 07:49 · Score: 5, Funny

I guess you would at least have access to some logs ...
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by HiVizDiver · 2008-12-17 07:55 · Score: 4, Funny

While you guys had me on pins and needles waiting for the next clever post, I think I'm going to leave.
Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by Not-a-Neg · 2008-12-17 08:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Now that Slashdot has toasted the rest of his servers, he has some more hard drives to make ornaments out of.

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Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by severoon · 2008-12-17 10:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh SCSI tree, oh SCSI tree, How shiny are your plaaaaat-ters!
Redundancy, redundancy, how you protect your d444-t3rz!

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Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by UltraAyla · 2008-12-17 14:38 · Score: 4, Funny

but he's dreaming of a wiped Christmas!