I can't say I've ever seen a harddrive have THIS happen to it. How very ODD. The platters were wiped almost completely clean.

[ Yeah, i remember this. Aren't those DeskStars (aka Death Stars) the ones that had PiXiE Dust? Some IBM thing that increased storage density but also had the tendency to cause catastrophic failure?

What i didn't know is that the platters were plastic (glass?). In all the harddrives i've ever opened, they were metal, presumably aluminum. -k]

Ever seen a harddrive fail like THIS?