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 Post subject: Plastic piece in HDD
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 10:23 am 

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Not every drive has this and some have more than one...is it basically a fine tuning for the balance, like a wheel weight on a car?


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 Post subject: Re: Plastic piece in HDD
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Yep.

I’ve only seen that once. Asked a much smarter friend; and that’s what they told me. A way to salvage slightly-off parts. Never followed up any deeper but he was a design head at a fortune 100 so I just took it as fact.

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 Post subject: Re: Plastic piece in HDD
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I pretty much ignored them for a long time, realized fairly recently that it probably was for that but figured a second opinion would be good for confirmation. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for more. I'm betting they're color coded somehow (I've seen 3 colors at least) to indicate how much they weigh similar to locksmiths having color coded pins for their heights.

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marked141 wrote:
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@lost waiting for your reply to an email. Or my forum post on EDO. Whichever :-)
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 Post subject: Re: Plastic piece in HDD
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@lost waiting for your reply to an email. Or my forum post on EDO. Whichever :-)


Missed the post somehow. I’ll look in a moment. As for the email I wanted to check on something first. Should get back to you today

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 Post subject: Re: Plastic piece in HDD
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HDD adjacent...since that's the topic xP

This poor thing failed and got all scratched up.

Wondering...did all the platinum get deposited onto the filter? Would platinum be black in small particles or is it just aluminum oxide? (Mostly curious for the sake of knowing)
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No idea what that is. I’d take it to the local shoppe and have it xrf tested. Personally. Just out of curiosity.

There’s not enough platinum on a disk platter to really be worth collecting though.

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