Re: [Thinkpad] RF resistant ThinkPads NOW shattered HDD platters..

interesting comment..
a HDD customer recently sent back a 40gig travelstar as
dead..
dead does not describe it..
shattered is more accurate..
it sounded like broken glass was inside the HDU..
won't bore with the details, but i opened the HDD and found
that the top platter was shattered..
tiny bits of glass platter inside with no apparent signs of
trauma to the exterior..

in a later conversation with this customer, he mentioned
that he would need to put any HDD he returned for warranty
into a microwave oven to destroy any ability to recover the
critical info from the HDD...

so, now i wonder if the HDD with the shattered platter might
have had a brief sojourn in a microwave which resulted in
that shattered platter.. ??!

anyone care to comment..? :-)

*******************
Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Schumann" <cschumann@twp-llc.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>; <andres@pilot.msu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:18 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] RF resistant ThinkPads

> I know there are ThinkPad's on the space shuttle. I
believe they
> are 760 series models. There is certainly a lot more
radiation
> in space, so you might want to give NASA a call. What
could it
> hurt?
>
> From: "STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>
>
> > The killer is that it will be used field service work at
antenna farms,
> > where the RF swirling around can kill normal laptops. I
know that
> > some Toshiba and Sony units put their little legs in the
air after a
> > short period (like seconds) of exposure.
>
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