{"id":2733,"date":"2018-03-10T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T17:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2018-03-10T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T17:52:33","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2018\/03\/10\/its-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I disassembled a failed hard disk. I take them apart (and destroy the platters) to prevent anyone from recovering my data, and also to harvest the two super-strong magnets held inside (upper left in this photo). This particular 2TB drive had a &#8220;spinning time&#8221; of 7+ years and was still working, but the OS noted a quickly-increasing amount of read errors. Not much has changed since the last time I did this: you still get the pretty shiny platters and a couple precision aluminum rings to separate them, the lightweight head-arm assembly, the aforementioned magnets, and a metric assload of stainless steel screws. I&#8217;d never seen the blade-like things at bottom left (slotted between the platters, presumably for airflow management or heat extraction).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2018-03-10-09.16.53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2734\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2018-03-10-09.16.53-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2018-03-10-09.16.53-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2018-03-10-09.16.53-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2018-03-10-09.16.53-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/2018-03-10-09.16.53-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I disassembled a failed hard disk. I take them apart (and destroy the platters) to prevent anyone from recovering my data, and also to harvest the two super-strong magnets held inside (upper left in this photo). This particular 2TB drive had a &#8220;spinning time&#8221; of 7+ years and was still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2018\/03\/10\/its-been-a-while\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s been a while&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}