Every time, without fail, though I haven't decided what I want to do with them yet.

A common public toilet till machine has a keyhole that looks like a coin slot. Turns out, HDD magnets are the perfect shape to fish out any coins mistakenly thrown in there.

In a distant post-apocalyptic future, the survivors will use hard drive platters as a currency.

I do that to my dead drives, but I’ve only had one fail that wasn’t an SSD. Moreso because the washers that separate the platters have a very satisfying ring to them that makes me keep them as a fidget toy.

I use the magnets to hold screws, it works great for that.

Unfortunately, SSDs have less interesting parts, so I just take them apart to destroy the chips after failure

The older IDE drives with the 5.25" platters and smaller ones make great wind chimes. The laptop ones are a bit .ore fragile due to thinner material. Years ago, we used to do this with a few of them.

I use old platters to hang around our chicken houses. The idea is to distract hawks and eagles with the sparkle as they spin in the breeze... Probably doesn't work, but I like the shiny disks :)

I used to collect AOL cds. I had a stack a few feet high. I was going to make some sort of artwork out of them.

No, but you do, and I like this ob-jay-dar

There's some really fun chemistry in the rare-earth magnets - I used to buy them in bulk to enlarge my own IT-workshop collection, which was mostly broken down for Nd salts. Also, the magnets from iMac screens were also plentiful when HDD magnets got small (and then went extinct).

Nice : )

Yes. Got to admit mine just isn't as big as yours, though.

Challenge accepted. I'll post our collection tomorrow! I used some magnets to hold up a white board last week too. Hahaha

Now I am feeling sorry I did not...

I've been lucky enough to not have a drive die on me yet.

I'm much more interested in your kit in the background.

I wish I got that many hard drives just so I could do this.

I use the old disks as costers