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Computer hard drive with the protective casing removed

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Utah

happy times, now rust

As the 365 is now over and done with, before I pick up my camera and add to the confusion that is my harddisk... My 365 folder is a whopping 785 gig!... I am slowly going to go through a few of the folders that I shared with other people that due to the time constrictions of a 365 I was unable to post/edit/print/fuck with... once I get all those out then I will head back to my camera and make a fucking shit stain mess of my hard disk.

This was taken the day Katerina and I let shit fall where it may and end up in a waterfall in Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains.

lebeh seminggu aku tak dpt jenguk photostream. Segalanya berpunca di atas sebab2 yg amat mengerikan bulu kerinting. Harddisk saya "kong". For a while, seglanya dlm proses data recovery & hopefully everything fine, apa yang amat merobek hatiku ialah segala raw file dlm photostream ini belum berback-up. Fuh.....doa dari kalian amat dialukan :)

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new orleans

Just found these pictures on my harddisk.

It was a lovely day :-)

I'm looking forward to our Legoland-Trip 2019 <3

Just found these pictures on my harddisk.

It was a lovely day :-)

I'm looking forward to our Legoland-Trip 2019 <3

In Backpack.

89 von 366

Die Frage stellte mir meine Schwester und mir fiel nichts besseres ein, als zu sagen, ich zeig es dir. Tja damit habe ich eine Festplatte weniger, aber auch ein Detailfoto :)

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Keine Sorge, war eine alte Festplatte, viel ist dabei also nicht verloren gegangen und allen die diese Frage gestellt wird, die wissen es nun :)

This Seagate with its rubber skin-suit is still the best looking HDD in my opinion...

Just found these pictures on my harddisk.

It was a lovely day :-)

I'm looking forward to our Legoland-Trip 2019 <3

© Photography by Marius Gabriel. All rights reserved! Please do not use my photo without my explicit permission!

Eravate curiosi di sapere cosa c'é dentro un Hard Disk?

This photo was made eight years (yes I was surprised too) ago..

She always connects to all kinds of animals, big or small (except spiders)... Could it be, that the things, the talents, we carry in us from the very beginning, have something to do with our life's' destination??

Cleaning up my harddisk can be rewarding sometimes, just like a big old attic, you never know what you'll find....

Nikon D70 + Sigma 70-300 DL2

florida

hawai

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AIR 14 Payerne – 1970 HDS 7380 Modell E 700 Megabyte Hard Drive

Eravate curiosi di sapere cosa c'é dentro un Hard Disk?

That's my precious hard disk….keeper of all my photographic excursions. A close-up view.

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Homebuilt barebones MSI Wind desktop system (not the laptop, with the unfortunately identical name). This system has been running fine with Ubuntu for a over a year now. Fast enough to show video fine (some problems with some full screen web video in FireFox). Surprisingly heavy, wicked quiet!

Step 1. - Gather components

1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU MSI Wind PC Intel 945GC

Kingston 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 533

500GB WD5000AACS SATA HDD

DVD-R/W Lite-On iHAS120-04

RF Wireless compact keyboard (with joystick mouse) BTC 9116URF

$300 + $40 shipping/tax (10 Oct 2008)

I used NewEgg, but there are other vendors supplying the components as well. I try to get high quality hard disks, but don't really worry about the RAM or optical drive much (both are quite cheap). On-board graphics chip (945GC).

Step 2. - Remove top cover

Step 3. - Remove front panel and drive assembly

Step 4. - Install RAM

Step 5. - Bolt drives into drive assembly

Step 6. - Snap drive assembly back in

Last week I experienced my first hard-disk failure ever (in fact my first hardware failure in more than 10 years of using computers ... maybe something to do with the fact that I'm using Macs).

My external backup hard-disk died on me, suddenly, silently, without even saying good bye ...

Even my knowledgeable friends couldn't revive it (and they know what they're talking about you know, they are able to tell if a disk is broken just by listening at the first few seconds when it boots).

Since then, I'm even more paranoid than I was before about loosing digital files.

I was paranoid alright, but I guess just the right amount, now I've taken the leap into pure insanity... there no telling what I'll be up to next.

Kidding of course. But seriously, what do you photo-enthusiasts do to ensure your photos are safe? Do you copy your photos regularly to 6 different hard disks and store them at different friend's places? Do you print all of them? Do you pray every day? Or do you just live in ignorance, a happy and worry-free life?

For my part I first download my photos to my computer, then copy them to my other computer, then I back them up on an external hard disk (the one that died) and on top of that I burn DVDs every now and then. Add to that some uploads to Flickr and some print outs as well.

But is it enough? What if I get robbed, or the flat burns down, or a gigantic magnetic field erases every data I ever had? (did I mention I was paranoid?)

So anyway, lately I was trying to convince my friends that only the CLOUD could keep my data safe from harm. You know, uploading photos to online backup services that are specializing in just this.

I was (still am to some degree) convinced that this is the best option yet. I mean, those companies are making money on this, they've got to be good at it, right? .... Right ??

Somehow I imagine them having fire-bullet-thief-spilled cofee-proof rooms filled with professional servers, doing data replication all over the place. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they just have the usual Windows PCs lying around in the dust of an office, stacked on top of each other (we've got some of them at work). Maybe the company is running out of money and will just go bankrupt in 6 months. There's no telling.

And this is exactly the problem with this kind of service, you don't know what they are doing with the data. You don't know if it is really safe and for how long.

Also, there's the big debate on confidentiality, but really, I don't care as much about this one. I'd be ready to copy all of my data to Google servers (I already do to some extent) for example. Even keeping in mind how much of a giant multinational group they're becoming.

So anyway, if you had the energy to read all of this, maybe you'll be so kind as to answer my simple question: how do you keep your photos safe?

old roundabout

Vacationing at friends house, I had brought my Yamaha piano and my laptop Macintosh.

As much a MacBook Pro is easy to carry (less than three kilos with the power supply and the save DC), as much the 35 kilos of the Yamaha are a concern !

But what a joy to work his instrument facing to a beautiful maple, trimmed its fall colors.

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En villégiature chez des amis, j'avais emporté mon piano et mon Mac.

Autant un MacBook Pro est facile à transporter (moins de trois kilos avec l'alim et le DD de sauvegarde), autant les 35 kilos du Yamaha posent problème !

Mais quel bonheur de pouvoir travailler son instrument devant un magnifique érable, paré de ses couleurs automnales.

Suitable harddisk model to use it's servosystem to build a DIY low-cost shutter.

This picture was taken by scanning the harddisk on the flatbed of my HP All In One printer.

To get the servosystem out of the harddisk the following tools are needed :

- One Torx T8 or a normal 2.5 mm (not recommended) screwdriver for most of the screws.

- One 8 mm screwdriver to remove the central servobolt.

- A cutter or pince to remove the read / write amplifiers and wiring.

- 20 minutes time ...

Required steps to remove the Servosystem from the Harddisk

Step 1

Remove the cover of the harddisk - remove the 7 screws (one screw sits below the label ! - see picture).

Step 2

Remove the dust protection tape on the side of the harddisk.

Step 3

Remove the 6 screws and the cover from the platter.

Step 4

Push black plastic lever toward the center. Move the Servosystem arm now to the outside of the platter.

Step 5

Unscrew the 3 screws from the servosystem. One srew with the 8 mm srewdriver and two screws with the Torx T8 screwdriver SIMULTANEOUSLY to avoid damage to the Servo-anchor !

Step 6

Try to remove the platter(s) from the harddisk now ... Be careful not to damage the Servo-anchor.

Step 7

Remove the Servosystem and its connectionblock.

Step 8

Cut the flatcable form the connectionblock if You like to use your own connection cable. Otherwhise you can use the existing flatcable and findout its two coil connections ...

Step 9

Remove all the read / write stuff (glued) from the Servosystem arm(s) with a pince.

Step 10

Saw off at least one arm till the base of the servosystem.

Step 11

Remove the flatcable from the solenoid with a 50 Watt or lower soldering iron.

Step 12

Solder two wires (stripped from an old harddisk flatcable) to the solenoid pins.

This is the most critical part of the operation ! Mark at least one wire because the Servosystem is polarised. The manner how a DC voltage is connected to the solenoid determines the direction of move of its anchor.

Step 13

empty step - to dangerous to specify one : > )

Step 14

The servosystem can now be further adapted and modified as a nearly zero-cost DIY Shutter system.

Step 15

Test the Servosystem outside the harddisk with a 5 to 9 Volt (block)battery.

Remember to change the polarity if nothing happens ...

Good Luck !

Frans (alias Arnoldus)

Update September, 1 th 2013 :

Since last year I replaced the harddisk voicecoil by a DIY magnet system build around a neodymium permanent magnet and a simple solenoid. The achieved results are about the same but the weight is strongly reduced ... Please see www.flickr.com/photos/arnoldus1942/8207885119/in/photostr... for the new prototype.

Disaster struck. My portable harddisk containing 10 years of my photos is dead. All my photos of the past 10 years, including many very precious photos like my wedding photos, honeymoon photos, farewell parties etc are all gone. I have taken the harddisk to TRY to undergo a data recovery process which costs me HK$7,500 (about USD900 or Euro 700). I will know in one week's time whether any of my photos can be recovered, if at all.

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dear friends and contacts, forgive me for just comment and upload nothing. i got disaster, my harddisk is broken, and i can't return it to seller because, its bill payment is lost. well, i must say goodbye to my data, sadly, most of them are my pictures (320gb), buy a new one (500gb) and setup all of i need to work. dang... excel, word, photoshop, corel, updates, games, what a waste of time...

Woohoo! Dual monitor setup making use of Synergy.

The left screen is for my main Intel P4 workstation, with a 250GB harddisk and 2GB RAM.

The right screen is connected to a modest AMD Athlon 2200 with 1GB RAM and again, a 250GB harddisk and an additional 40GB harddisk.