While I’m occupied, I’ll leave you with my video where I take out my technological frustrations on a bunch of hard drives.
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3225840852266634757[/googlevideo]
Bitter got a picture of the undearly departed.
The IBM hard drives have glass plates instead of aluminum, so it was like breaking several mirrors.  I figure I have at least a century of bad luck coming to me now. Most hard drives these days are using glass platters, I think, because glass has a lower coefficient of expansion than most metals, so the magnetic tracks on the platter surface don’t move as greatly with the expanding platter.
Now all you need is some to thermite to finish them off.