I'd have to side with Odie here. About 15 'years' ago I pulled apart an (now)
old 85meg RLL hard drive because the auto park wouldn't release. This was on
the kitchen table & that drive is still working today .... you'd think it would
have just plain worn out by now.
I noticed it had filters inside it to clean the air moving inside it so I expect
it was all clean again within seconds if not minutes of firing up again.
The 'new' drives I've pulled apart for the magnets seem to have the air filters
as well although I'd expect today's technology to be less tolerant to dirty air
what with the amount of data that they pack into the smaller space but I still
wouldn't expect it to die in "a few days or weeks".
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:48:28 -0000, "David C. Partridge"
wrote:
Cough! I said class 1 not class 100!
Sure a drive will function for a while with the case off, but it will die
soonish (maybe a few days or weeks, but it will die).
If OTOH all you are doing is extracting the magnets from old drives - then
go right on ..
Dave
"Odie Ferrous" wrote in message
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"David C. Partridge" wrote:
Hmmmm why do you want to open the case of the drive? If you open it
outside a class 1 clean room, the drive WILL die.
Or are you talking about the drive mounting screws?
Perhaps the drive already *is* dead.
Don't overestimate clean rooms - they contain 100 particles per cubic
meter as opposed to an "average" room containing 600 particles. A
"clean" "average" room will contain far less than the 600 particles.
For what it's worth, I've had a drive running non-stop for over a week
without its cover (platters exposed) and haven't had any hiccups. This
hype about "clean rooms" is a load of drivel.
There are those who will say "if you get one single particle of dust on
your platters, your drive will be irretrievably damaged."
Bollox. And bollox to FR, who will no doubt disagree.
Odie
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