are harddisk completely sealed ???

I open one myself. I do not know.

donotroubleme wrote:

are harddisk completely sealed ???

I open one myself. I do not know.


No.

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the internal parts of a hard drive is sealed to keep out dust particles
that would scratch the platters or read/write head. With the cost per
GB of disk space so inexpensive, it would be a waste of time to try to
repair it.

I have a bunch of bad ones if someone wants one to experiment with or
just look at. probably cost a buck or 2 to mail

They've got some wicked magnets in them, I've got a whole pile I've been
gradually parting out. There's some cool ball bearings and other bits
too and a fair amount of scrap aluminum.


FYI make sure you remove the silly crossposting if replying to any of
these threads, there's a lot of that floating around lately.