{"id":64,"date":"2007-08-08T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T03:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/08\/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-found-in-your-hard-drive"},"modified":"2007-08-08T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T03:11:40","slug":"whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-found-in-your-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the weirdest thing you&#8217;ve found in your hard drive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!256\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>When I say &quot;in your hard drive&quot;, I mean that quite literally.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>We are destroying some drives for a medical customer.\u00a0 Since we do not have the proper SCSI card to actually connect the drives, we&#8217;ve decided to physically destroy the drives.\u00a0 One of them had a stripped screw, and\u00a0we ended up folding back the metal cover over the drive platters to get access to them.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Amazingly, when we flipped back the cover, we saw that one of the drive\u00a0platters had a large X written on it with a black marker!\u00a0 See the attached photo.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s the strangest thing I&#8217;ve ever found *in* a hard drive.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blufiles.storage.live.com\/y1pz-lrA7bd-GWvAGSn6roK4UgcdFLNMuFwL3DjlkhzrNvXEs1CzOfJDxl5Hs5e0GPIhdFKa1YK7Ms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"WLPP;url=http:\/\/blufiles.storage.live.com\/y1pz-lrA7bd-GWvAGSn6roK4UgcdFLNMuFwL3DjlkhzrNvXEs1CzOfJDxl5Hs5e0GPIhdFKa1YK7Ms;cnsid=cns&#033;E4092A968B7C1A54&#033;258\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blufiles.storage.live.com\/y1pz-lrA7bd-GWvAGSn6roK4UpTAswPPSYNvBWMWdwde-BbjosSpUg4FZooLuRxg0Q7mELpwjPVNm0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I say &quot;in your hard drive&quot;, I mean that quite literally. \u00a0 We are destroying some drives for a medical customer.\u00a0 Since we do not have the proper SCSI card to actually connect the drives, we&#8217;ve decided to physically destroy the drives.\u00a0 One of them had a stripped screw, and\u00a0we ended up folding back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}