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Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:45 am
by Apoptosis
This is a silly idea... Let's encase our hard drives in concrete... Wait... Doesn't that label on the bottom of the drive say do not cover the ventilation holes? Funny idea, but not the right solution!
Harddrive is a USB flash drive entombed in concrete so when the technology becomes obsolete and it is tossed, it will not leach its heavy metals into the landfill.
On a metaphorical level, its weight acts as a counter-mass to the obsessive miniaturization, quick convenience, disposable mentality of our electronic products. Things should be more convenient but not at the expensive of other more important things (like making us dumb or weak for example). Being harder to bring around with you and contradicting the promise of the pocketable jump drive, Harddrive is a functional reminder about the permanence that should be a part of the design thinking of our objects.
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Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:56 pm
by FZ1
Gives new meaning to a bricked HDD.
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:05 pm
by GI-JOE
FZ1 wrote:Gives new meaning to a bricked HDD.
Priceless
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:24 pm
by DMB2000uk
Apoptosis wrote:This is a silly idea... Let's encase our hard drives in concrete... Wait... Doesn't that label on the bottom of the drive say do not cover the ventilation holes? Funny idea, but not the right solution!
Psst Nate, read the quote you quoted. It says they are flashdrives in the concrete, not hard drives
Dan
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:35 pm
by bubba
Not sure what is more messed up. The idea of encasing the drive in concrete to keep it from leaching into the ground (which it will when the concrete breaks down, only buying time) or the guys bitching that he did it with concrete do to the fact that concrete is bad for the environment.
all this was being argued via a PC/MAC that has stuff in it that is most definitely not good, a true hard core "green" nut case should live off the land in a cave (don't want to cut anything down to make a hut) and not use a PC/MAC (can't use any electricity, not "green")
If you can't tell I truly dislike the term "green".
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:18 pm
by Sporg
Haha! Love the look! Imagine going to work on someone's PC and pull out a concrete brick. "Oh, I keep my important tools in here. This thing also prevents the government from tracking me. Concrete is so much more secure."
Bubba - I'm with you. I hate that term as well.
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:25 pm
by Skippman
It could double as a weapon in a hurry. Nothing like a block of concreate on a string!
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:22 pm
by Apoptosis
DMB2000uk wrote:Apoptosis wrote:This is a silly idea... Let's encase our hard drives in concrete... Wait... Doesn't that label on the bottom of the drive say do not cover the ventilation holes? Funny idea, but not the right solution!
Psst Nate, read the quote you quoted. It says they are flashdrives in the concrete, not hard drives
Dan
I know, but look what the concrete says... "HARD DRIVE" Yeah it's flash, but heck it is a Hard Drive in the sense that it's concrete...
Re: Concrete Hard Drive
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:01 pm
by stev
My father-in-law retired from a company that encases radioactive waste into concrete.
Makes me wonder what is with these bricks?
