Your Old Hard Drives Reborn as Wind Chimes
July 28th, 2008
Do you have loads of old hard drives laying around your house? Do you love the sweet tinny tones of wind chimes clinkity clinking on your back porch? If so, this is a great project for you- you can turn your old, unused or crashed hard drives into this set of aluminum wind chimes.
To learn how to make your very own set, check out this instructional video. Spoiler alert: he opens up hard drives, takes them apart, and makes them into wind chimes.
My favorite part of the video is when he refers to one of his trashed hard drives as an “IBM scuzzy ultrastar.” Is that the official name? It turns out not to be so “scuzzy” when it yields “a whopping six platters!” This guy has an infectious enthusiasm for hard drives of all shapes and sizes. I like him! The wind chimes, meh, not so much.
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Categories: Geek Art + Craft Hacks + Mods
Tags: aluminum hard drive ibm platter wind chimes
He would have been saying “SCSI”, an old standard for peripheral connection and data transfer.
I have 2 SCSI drives (1 and 2 GB) just lying around at home, waiting to be taken apart. Yay, now I can get strong magnets and wind chimes out of them!
I always thought SCSI drives were pretty scuzzy though. I just remember all the headaches I used to have with bad drive termination on my old Mac IIci.
I spent so much time listening to the big drives squeal as they did a seek that I am not sure if I wanted to hear them being blown around by the wind… Cool project, though.