Had a hard drive crash last week ( kind of like the forum, been having a little withdrawal here....), so I got the old one back from Support ( out of warranty unfortunately, Seagate no longer has the old 5 year "so long as you did not hit it with a hammer or burn it up" warranty on the drives, the Chinese made one only has a year.....) and decided to both do secure data erasure ( more secure than the power on click, click ,buzz, click, ominous silence) and see what went totally FUBAR inside.
So, open up the case, using a crappy OHL torx set, and remove the steel cover to see a disk with the damage you see on the surfaces. The bends were me, seeing if it was an aluminium or glass platter. It did not shatter, so aluminium alloy. The one head was missing, did not find anything of it, it was turned into dust, and did a matching job underneath to the platter as the flying bits went around the case. Reduced to scrap metal now and a PCB, with a new magnet added to the collection of hard drive magnets.
