that I send this one to the list. Maybe this is a Best of BLUG.
It was from 4 years ago:
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Mark Krenz blug_at_mailman.cs.indiana.edu
Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:46:12 -0000 (GMT)
I was reading this:
and came across this reply 3 posts down:
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Did you ever have to deal with IBM DeskStar (a.k.a. DeathStar) drives?
The most spectacular HD blowout I ever witnessed was one such DeathStar.
The postmortem was that the drive had first suffered from bearings
failure, which then led to a headcrash. That wasn't the spectacular bit
though ... no that came a second later, when microfractures in one of the
platers caused the now unbalanced disks to shatter with such force, that
shrapnel from the explosion penetrated the outer casing, and embedded into
the aluminium of the drive bay and surrounding area.
Oh, and of course, I had no backups.
One hard drive, one aluminium PC case, three months worth of work, and a
perfectly good pair of pants, all gone forever.
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[H]omer
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Has anyone ever heard of something like that happening for real? It
just seems kinda unbelievable.
Mark
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