[drpixie]

I had a large collection of hard drives that had caused uncountable grief, we would relieve the stress by abusing the drives. Unfortunately they have long since been disposed of, but the collection included:

* subject drive to 100t press (it got thinner!)

* immerse drive in acid (little change) or base (drive dissolves!)

* subject drive to industrial guillotine

* warm drive with oxy torch

* drop from 300 ft tower (little change)

and so on. All good fun.

[shreddit]

I always wondered how "thin provisioning" works behind the scenes. You learn something new every day.