[Thinkpad] Re: shattered HDD platters..

Hello,

I have accidentally shattered a glass plate by putting it in a microwave
oven, so this damage could be the result of such an activity, however, I
would think that there would be damage to the casing and the circuit board
of the hard disk drive, too.

If you take a closer look at the exterior (or a closer sniff), do you see
any damage such as discoloration of the chips or other components on the
logic board or smell anything burnt?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 07:46 AM 9/24/2003, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
>Message: 1
>Reply-To: "Bill - ThinkPads dot Com" <bill@thinkpads.com>
>From: "Bill - ThinkPads dot Com" <bill@thinkpads.com>
>To: "Chris Schumann" <cschumann@twp-llc.com>, <thinkpad@stderr.org>,
> <andres@pilot.msu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] RF resistant ThinkPads NOW shattered HDD platters..
>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:21:56 -0400
>
>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
>[...snip...]

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