Ever shoot a Hard Drive?

[santahog]

I put 5+ rounds on one this evening and only one made it to the second layer! One just barely scratched it!!  
I was impressed!
Granted, it was Wolf, but still!
If I can remember to take a pic of it, I'll try to figure out how to post it up here..

Anybody else have this experience??

[Solus]

Never shot one, but before you destroy it, you might want to see if you can open it and remove the rare earth magnets that are probably used in it. 

They are more powerful than standard magnets and might be worth keeping.   Don't know if there is any kind of used market for them.

[alfsauve]

you might want to see if you can open it and remove the rare earth magnets that are probably used in it. They are more powerful than standard magnets and might be worth keeping. 

Ditto's on that.   The magnets are good for culling steel cases out of range sweepings.  And they can be used to hold a gun under a desk or cabinet.  Or glue your church key to them and they'll hold them on the 'frigerator.  Or use them for cleaning up metal shavings/filings when working with steel.

I also collect the disks which are almost perfect first surface aluminum mirrors (with a hole in the middle).  use them as reflectors for stage and Christmas decorations.

[Solus]

Some time ago I was trying to think of anything useful to do with all the non-needed CDs that accumulate.

All I could come up with is to make a "gun" that will hold a stack of them.  Have them drop onto a spindle that gets them rotating to a high speed, then shoots them out like a rail gun..with the spindle dropping at the muzzle end.

Sounds like the aluminum disks would be an ammo upgrade.

[billt]

They're tougher than I thought.

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[tombogan03884]

Solus, the shiny surface on a CD is a very thin coat of aluminum .
The rest of the disc is plastic.

[Solus]

Solus, the shiny surface on a CD is a very thin coat of aluminum .
The rest of the disc is plastic.

That I know....thus the disk from a hard drive would be an ammo upgrade

[mrmatt2you]

I took out a few hard drives to the range to shoot.  I was shocked by just the dent I put on it with my .45.   I was expecting to go right thru it.   Those are a lot tougher than I thought.   I can tell you that when I see someone shoot into the computer on tv or a movie, I know they did not damage crap.   If you do get the chance to do it, I would suggest going out there and doing it.  Fun to see how little damage you actually cause them.

[Solus]

I read from an unofficial source ...but I thought it was a serious observation...  that a PC hard drive has a shock rating of 45Gs...

Seemed unbelievable to me...anyone know for sure?

[billt]

I once watched a show on how police obtain evidence off hard drives that criminals had thought they had "erased". Most of the data is always recoverable. They said the only way to completely erase a hard drive, was to remove it from the computer, and smash it with a hammer.