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Answer» Very strange story of a hard disk drive crash. I've never seen or even heard of anything LIKE this happening before.
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/wow! That is just weird...I was perplexed about the substrate material of the platters themselves...as i had in the past been under the impression most were metal...commonly aluminum...so i did some looking...
My Findings...Very interesting. I had also thought all platters were made of aluminum, but I guess in a few years all of our hard drives will be GLASS.they've been made of glass for around 20 or so years. Aluminum is a metal so it expanded and contracted quite a lot during power on and power off- this meant that recorded data might be "skewed" if read at a DIFFERENT temperature. This was why hard drives were so much more UNRELIABLE with older PCs such as XTs and early AT models, and required reformatting around once a year.WOW! I've never seen a HDD completely SCRUBBED CLEAN!
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