Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
In contrast, my IDE drives have failed abruptly and
without warning, many
times before the warranty was expired. I have a bucket of such drives,
which I intend to take the platters out to make attractive and very smooth
drinks coasters.
Those platters also make fine wind chimes, although it's
better to use several drives of different sizes as all those
precisely machined platters from the same drive play exactly
the same note. ;-)
"Everything has at least two uses:
One for which it was made...
And one for which it was...
...not." ~Jos~