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Disk drive abuse

Pete Steege

Pete Steege

February 5, 2009

 

My Seagate FreeAgent Go disk drive has been frozen for 59 days.  It’s getting warmer, so I needed to come up with a new form of abuse. 

I put on my skates and did my worst.

The surface area of my skate blades are .35 square inches each, which means I was applying over 400 pounds per square inch of pressure standing on one foot.  Stomping on the drive was even more abusive.

Can anyone tell me the downward impact of a slapshot?

The Frozen Drive Saga so far:

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3 Comments

  1. Rich Harris
    Posted February 5, 2009 at 8:10 pm | Permalink

    Man I’m so glad I’m in California right now!

  2. Saqib Ali
    Posted February 17, 2009 at 12:07 pm | Permalink

    Hey Pete,

    When do you plan de-freezing the drive? I can’t wait…. :)

    Saqib

  3. Storage Effect
    Posted February 18, 2009 at 6:07 am | Permalink

    The rink’s softening up. The sun’s getting a lot stronger now. I think it’s going to be mid-March. Stay tuned!

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