Never_Evil
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A friend of mine had 41 NEW scsi hard drives and was willing to give them to me. I had to open one up to see if the hard drive platters were platinum or not. I cannot tell. They are not a shiny reflective silver like other platinum drives Ive opened, but they are not the brownish drives either. It is more on the silver side, but is offtinted to the ever so slight brown side. On a scale of 1 being bright silver coloring and 10 being the brownish drive, these are about a 3. I had an Ipod 40gig hard drive that was bad and opened that and WOOO HOOOO platinum.
Ok now with all the details out of the way, Ive tried to google these seagates and nothing is coming up with materials used. They are model st31051n 1.06 gig 50 pin scsi hd 5400 rpm spin. There is a lot of aluminum used to make up the body, a few gold pins, and copper for recovery, but what are the platters made of/coated with?
any help is appreciated
dennis
Ok now with all the details out of the way, Ive tried to google these seagates and nothing is coming up with materials used. They are model st31051n 1.06 gig 50 pin scsi hd 5400 rpm spin. There is a lot of aluminum used to make up the body, a few gold pins, and copper for recovery, but what are the platters made of/coated with?
any help is appreciated
dennis