What are Seagate platters made of?

Dave Smith <Sallydog@cox.net> wrote:

<snip>
> >You must be young and foolish to write this. Curiosity does
> >always have a motive, even if it is only a wasteful vanity
> >of knowing, but in that case it is even more foolish to
> >bother learning something to which there is no expected
> >application.
> >
> >Basically, we all have finite time here on earth. You can
> >spend that time learning something useful to your goals, or
> >spend it on random *trivia* if you have no specific goal.
> >In the former case, it was worth your time. In the latter,
> >probably not - there's no prize for dying of old age with a
> >head full of information you didn't need, didn't apply.
>
> Hardly young (58) but maybe foolish. The only prize I seek is to
> enjoy my finite time here any way I can. One of the things I enjoy is
> simply learning. If there's something wrong with that I guess I'm
> guilty.
>
> *Shrug.*

Me? I have no choice but have to study harder and harder every day, and at
the age of 71 I still have to do daily. One of the problem that English
isn't my native language, too darn old to learn newer word and hard to
remember what I read in English. And I probably be 100+ times smarter,
quicker, longer memory etc. if everything I read is in my native language.

Or I haven't be able to learn many newer word for around 2 decades now
(dozen newer words?), and already forgot either 1/3 or 2/5 of what I have
learned when I was younger.

"Joel" <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> "Joel" <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
>> news:r8h784ta82mbt14bluvl874nubm6nmgkr4@4ax.com...
>> > "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:mjd68499mgk4ddl54vfqh142msjfjiruqh@4ax.com...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > - there's no prize for dying of old age with a
>> >> > head full of information you didn't need, didn't apply.
>> >>
>> >> And you avoid this, how? In fact, most of the "useful" things
>> >> I've learned came buried in trivia. Add to that, we usually have
>> >> little control over what stays and what goes. If you have a
>> >> non-alcoholic means of purging the trivia, let me know; there
>> >> seems to be an ever increasing amount building up in there.
>> >
>> > Then start feeding us the answers you learned from trivia <bg>
>>
>> Not a fan, I take it? There is plenty of that in my posts, "kony"
>> might even suggest most of my posts must have such a source.
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>
> Which one? <bg> this is the 2nd time I remember seeing your name here.
> Actually I didn't pay any attention to any poster's name until start
> response to the message I checked and see your name twice.

Google my name "Ken Maltby", you may find a few hits.

Luck;
Ken

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:55:03 -0700, Dave Smith
<Sallydog@cox.net> wrote:


>
>Hardly young (58) but maybe foolish. The only prize I seek is to
>enjoy my finite time here any way I can. One of the things I enjoy is
>simply learning. If there's something wrong with that I guess I'm
>guilty.
>
>*Shrug.*


The pursuit of knowledge wasn't the potentially foolish
part, it was the remark to a prior statement by VanguardLH
that there is some motive, even if you don't fully
understand it.

Yes some learn just for the sake of it, but nobody has the
time to learn *everything* so there is a motive causing you
to focus on learning this, versus something else with that
portion of your time.

"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> "Joel" <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:2ld984hne0m95l10n2n3ubvdugl0f82pis@4ax.com...
> > "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> "Joel" <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
> >> news:r8h784ta82mbt14bluvl874nubm6nmgkr4@4ax.com...
> >> > "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:mjd68499mgk4ddl54vfqh142msjfjiruqh@4ax.com...
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> > - there's no prize for dying of old age with a
> >> >> > head full of information you didn't need, didn't apply.
> >> >>
> >> >> And you avoid this, how? In fact, most of the "useful" things
> >> >> I've learned came buried in trivia. Add to that, we usually have
> >> >> little control over what stays and what goes. If you have a
> >> >> non-alcoholic means of purging the trivia, let me know; there
> >> >> seems to be an ever increasing amount building up in there.
> >> >
> >> > Then start feeding us the answers you learned from trivia <bg>
> >>
> >> Not a fan, I take it? There is plenty of that in my posts, "kony"
> >> might even suggest most of my posts must have such a source.
> >>
> >> Luck;
> >> Ken
> >
> > Which one? <bg> this is the 2nd time I remember seeing your name here.
> > Actually I didn't pay any attention to any poster's name until start
> > response to the message I checked and see your name twice.
>
> Google my name "Ken Maltby", you may find a few hits.

Hehehehe if you Google "Joel" then you may find millions of hits, but no
trivia <bg>

> Luck;
> Ken

If you still have a dead one take out the platter and drill holes in it
saving the shavings in a small capped bottle or phile and send it to a lab
for testing after finding out how much they need for the test and making
shure you send 2 to3 times that amount. The fee should be from $50 to about
$200 depending on if you wish to know the trace elements too. The more you
wish to know the more it will cost.

"Dave Smith" <Sallydog@cox.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:53:42 -0700, Dave Smith <Sallydog@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Just curious.
>>
>>I had a Seagate Barracuda 300GB Ver. 7200.8 drive die on me. No
>>receipt so I took it apart. The platters (three of them) are made of
>>a fairly soft but rigid metal. Anyone out there know what they're
>>made of?
>>
>>Thanks.
>
> Thanks very much to those who gave relevant replies.
>
> Dave