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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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  4. WTF? by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    happy holidays.

    What's that all about? It's Christmas isn't it? I really hate this PC crap, my Brother-in-Law (Muslim) doesn't say happy bloody holidays at Eid.

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  5. Re:What are the plans after the tree is dismantele by skuzzlebutt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (puts pinky up to corner of mouth and looks into camera #2):

    You mean...yule.log...?

    Mwa ha...mwa ha ha...mwah ha ha ha! MWAH HA HA HA!

    Sorry, running low on caffeine...going back to my cave now.

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