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Originally Posted by Blue Mountain Raider
what!?! i opened one of my old HDs and the platters are made from some kind of metal and very strong. for it to shatter you probably had to smash the thing VERY hard.
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Conventional HDD disks are aluminum plated with some kind of magnetic coating.
Laptop hard drives have glass disks in them, but I have never seen a standard 3.5" drive with glass or creamic disks myslef, and I have scraped hundreds of them over the years.
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