Trigger writes "At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks hamming* a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all chip with the servers, I decided to disassemble the hard drives and recycle them into distinct neat. With a lot (a lot) of patience, I made this shiny Xmas tree. In total there are around 70 old SCSI hard drives, between 9gb and 18gb in size each. They were nice and chunky, oldschool style. There were quite a few various




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fresh hard drive models, which is good because they each had unrelated bits which I could use. The Xmas tree is made with parts from hard drives only except for one nut which I had to realty for $0.39." It's good to see that this guy has plenty to do at work.

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