Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

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I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s

You joke but early 90s we had exactly this with magneto optical drives

Ah yes. The famous write-only backup solution :D