Christmas tree made from 70 SCSI hard drives

jmke · 19th December 2008, 17:48

At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks performing a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all together with the servers, I decided to disassemble the hard drives and recycle them into something neat. With a lot (a lot) of patience, I made this shiny Xmas tree.

In total there are around 70 old SCSI hard drives, between 9gb and 18gb in size each. They were nice and chunky, oldschool style. There were quite a few different hard drive models, which is good because they each had different bits which I could use. The Xmas tree is made with parts from hard drives only except for one nut which I had to purchase for $0.39.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200...C-0D6B48984890

19th December 2008, 23:39

Wow....

Bet it'd look even better with some Xmas lights

20th December 2008, 12:36

get ... a ... life

jmke · 20th December 2008, 13:50

most likely several lifes are stored on those disks, so he has plenty

19th December 2008, 17:48	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Christmas tree made from 70 SCSI hard drives At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks performing a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all together with the servers, I decided to disassemble the hard drives and recycle them into something neat. With a lot (a lot) of patience, I made this shiny Xmas tree. In total there are around 70 old SCSI hard drives, between 9gb and 18gb in size each. They were nice and chunky, oldschool style. There were quite a few different hard drive models, which is good because they each had different bits which I could use. The Xmas tree is made with parts from hard drives only except for one nut which I had to purchase for $0.39. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200...C-0D6B48984890 __________________

20th December 2008, 13:50	#4
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	most likely several lifes are stored on those disks, so he has plenty __________________

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19th December 2008, 23:39	#2
Kougar Posts: n/a	Wow.... Bet it'd look even better with some Xmas lights

20th December 2008, 12:36	#3
wutske Posts: n/a	get ... a ... life