Probably more an indication of action, rather than an indication of the actual action, as some of the actions involved do not take as long to happen as the display takes to respond.

Most likely, the actions involved would be reading, moving, verifying of the files to be moved.

Not sure of which application you are talking about, so hard to be specific.

Did John McCain invent it?

I pulled a hard disk apart the other day and there were all these little coloured bars on the platter. Quite a surprise really.

I got rid of an old computer the other week.

I decided that the best way to get rid of the hard drive was to smash it up. I had a great time with a big hammer.

You can't really do this in Japan, but HDD's are fun to take to the shooting range (if the rangemaster allows it)!

you can also do that in Thailand. Instead of them throwing a live chicken onto the range, they can trhow your hard disk.

It was quite disturbing, but also quite a spectacle. Some dude had a .45, held in both hands, and the range people threw in the chicken. SPLATATATATA

Yep it is fun smashing a hard drive to bits with a hammer. I found best way unscrew the cover from one side, get a chisel and then wack it a few times with a nice 4 pounder, it guarantees a nicely broken drive that is impossible for anyone to use or decipher any more!

Using it on a shooting range sounds good too! Have to try that one day.

If you got a vice at home bolted to your bench, how about using your old drive as a strength testing device, just put it in the vice and turn and turn and see how flat you can make it. If you can really squash it flat you must be strong!
This has many advantages :
1. Helps to build your strength and fitness up for the ski season.
2. Environmentally good as it can then be easily recycled
3. Stops snoopy bas+=*>s from dechipering anything from it.

LOL
Sorry that was my attempt at some humor, which most probably failed, but oh well sounded good at the time I wrote it!

I've never done that but next time I think I will it does sound fun. Wouldn't want anyone to find my "things to do" and "places to visit" Excel file

squishing in a vice like that, danger of exploding into face. Best get a remote controlled vice or one of those car squishing vices like they had on "The Fly", that very old film.

I once found a HDD with glass platters instead of aluminum. Quite unusual. Definitely don't want to be too near one of those when the case crushes in the jaws of the vise...

Glass?!

I have never seen a smashed up HDD. Does sound like fun. I have an old computer I never use, perhaps thats something for the weekend!

Yeah good point, forgot to mention worth wearing goggles when you try to crush the drive, oh that goes for anything that could break up, please do it at your own risk though and be careful.
Don't wont you to injure yourself just before the ski season kicks off.

Have to say never seen glass inside a HDD, thin metal disks, but never glass, that's something new on me. Having said that I have only crushed a couple of drives so maybe not crushed enough to find the ones with glass.

Yes. Usually the platters are indeed aluminum with the magnetic stuff deposited on it. The glass platters came as quite a surprise. IIRC, it was either an ancient IBM or Fujitsu. Not the kind of thing you want to discover when hurling them around the carport like ninja stars!

And you do that Ezorisu!?

I remember my last computer I didn't defrag once from buying until it was 4 years old. The defrag I did on that took forever. With my current one I do it once a week and it only takes 5 minutes or so.

Not at my own house! That was done at a friends house, the reason being had the platter been aluminum, the ninja mischief would have been followed up by taking the magnetic media off the platter with a die grinder, which I don't have.

This has degenerated into the "destroying HDD's" thread... Sorry!

but destroying is much more fun

I have yet to do it, but will next time I have one that is ready for destroying. Perhaps I might video and youtube it*.

* not really.