Hard Drive of DOOM!

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Published 2007-07-19

My partner recorded this at work. A client brought in their computer cause it wouldn't boot. When he removed the drive and connected it to be scanned he noticed that it started to smoke and glow red hot. It was also stinky when the magic smoke escped..

All Comments (21)

@HappyFoxIsHappy 14 years ago

Jupiter, you can take the HDD into data recover specialists to get the data back, it costs a lot though. As long as the disk is intact, your data is recoverable. Anywho, I've had a mouse begin to burn up on me. :P - A cheapo eMachines one. It was very... awkward, my mouse started getting very hot. xP
@Brock1912 13 years ago

IBM/Hitachi drives are notorious for that, this one looks like a maxtor
@CAPEK666 15 years ago

evil eye and evil laugh.."it's burning.. burning" LMAO xD
@bsmeets87 16 years ago

Had that once with a Maxtor 6Y120LO. I didn't do anything wrong but it began to smoke. I had to buy another drive to switch the mainboards to make it operate again.
@cpmisalive 15 years ago

I've had three 200GB Maxtor drives die in a row, one WD Raptor 146GB. The Seagate Barracuda drives are OK, I've got a bunch 120GB drives in my Torrent box (ancient Dell Precision 410) and that's been on for years, more or less, continuously reading and writing.
@jamesb1221222 14 years ago

Lol, that meant that the motor's speed controller was under a load (hence the burning) and it couldnt get the disk spinning. the motor probably went.
@surtur55 12 years ago

Hahahaha, that "Stiiinky" killed me.
@acecono 14 years ago

Maxtor and death motor chip!
@MGlBlaze 15 years ago

Also, it may be worth noting that this magic smoke has a distinctive blue colour usually, so you'll know when it's the magic smoke getting out rather than juts regular smoke. xD
@mahdir24 14 years ago

actually the hard drive data is fine. thats a tvs chip there that prevents the hard drive from data damge if there is a spike in the voltage
@stijnbagin 16 years ago

Well that sucks, an expensive heater if you ask me...
@RCPhilN 13 years ago

the same happend to my Brushless Speedcontroller...
@Lexusstylie 15 years ago

its giving you the evil eye ^^
@h1nicolas 13 years ago

Looks like a laser is being used.
@mboTV 15 years ago

this is cool!
@raidspirit90 15 years ago

= = "maxtor, made to be fried..."
@teletronikoforever 12 years ago

I think it is correctly formatted now :)
@KK4CNM 11 years ago

Nope no laser. I wish that I had a laser that could burn things! That would be so cool
@TGazza 15 years ago

you could make your dinner on that XD
@blueovalfan23 12 years ago

normally i like to blast mine with a 12ga when they go bad, maybe even get out the 91/30 lol. this looks fun though. still like my guns.