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mikebeary
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which hard drives can have the platters separated

January 4th, 2021, 16:55

Does anyone know which hard drive models allow the platters to be removed and misaligned from each other?

I have a Toshiba mk5059gsxp that I'd like to clean the platters from.

-Mike
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Re: which hard drives can have the platters separated

January 5th, 2021, 14:14

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Platter Swap Without Alignment Issues:
https://www.recoveryforce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=565
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Re: which hard drives can have the platters separated

January 5th, 2021, 15:29

mikebeary wrote:Does anyone know which hard drive models allow the platters to be removed and misaligned from each other?

I have a Toshiba mk5059gsxp that I'd like to clean the platters from.

-Mike


These are very tolerant for platter removal.

But it does beg the question... WHY do you want to clean all the platters?
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