thinking about that time when I put a viewing window into an iPod hard drive, and the whole thing still fucking works

@retr0id Did you do something special to avoid getting dust inside?

@robryk Not really, and I *did* get some amount of dust inside, because there are some bad sectors - but I was able to format around them, so it's fully functional again.

@retr0id Huh. I'm really surprised that the thing that got damaged are the platters and not the head.

@robryk I hope/theorise that any dust big enough to potentially cause a problem with the head would fly off with centrifugal force the moment it spins up, but who knows. The fact that it's a (relatively) low density drive helps too (30GB iirc)

@retr0id What mechanism would you theorise caused the dust to damage the platters?