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Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. What are the plans after the tree is dismanteled by raymansean · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How did we go from DOD erasure to removing the platters to make a tree? The data could still be recovered in its current tree state!

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  2. wrong picture? by Bob-taro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA shows a "tree" made of disk platters -- all shiny silver, no green. What's with the generic green xmas tree pic in the summary? Is that one of those "category" images?

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  3. This thread is useless without pics.... by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be nice if the picture attached to the story showed the actual tree. The site is barely loading....

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    1. Re:This thread is useless without pics.... by teslar · · Score: 4, Insightful

      So you build something vaguely cone-shaped and because it's December, it gains +1 Christmassy? I mean, it's a bunch of platters stacked onto each other. I actually think it's pretty cool (especially the bottom part - gotta love the semi-chaotic shinyness. Not so much a fan of the top or the fact that it isn't exactly straight), but I wouldn't call it a Christmas tree.

      In fact, if you scrape the Christmas idea, redesign the top and add more blue LEDs into the thing, you could just end up with a nifty piece of art that's for life, not just for Chrstmas ;)

  4. I miss these days by COMON$ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When people made creative things out of old equipment. Haven't seen a good set of Christmas ornaments or bling from outdated equipment for a while. Years ago it was everywhere. Burnt platters, melted CDs, old tape tinsel....ahhh geekmas.

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  5. Re:FAIL by skammie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, most autistic kids stack things very neatly and precisely. So no need to further heap insults on autistic children by comparing them to this guy.

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