@qwazix @cwebber

I didn't think they came out as well, the lighting wasn't dispersed enough for my phone camera to do it justice and I already packed the DSLR

@mlemweb @cwebber I think that if you pack them together a bit more so less table is visible it's gonna be much better. Still though with a bit of cropping...

@mlemweb @cwebber 120 years later: after the great breakthrough of curing aging, now scientists can extract data from photos of hard disk platters, even those that have sustained damage.

@qwazix @mlemweb gonna take some real magic to extract that much high density information from as low density of a cell phone camera picture

@qwazix @mlemweb not to mention the other magic

@cwebber @mlemweb come on lemme dream :-)

I assume however the information of a 20mb 5.25" drive w/three platters might physically be able to fit in a 20mpix smartphone photo lossleasly compressed. The information density shouldn't be too much either.

@qwazix @cwebber

It does look better cropped and in black and white!

Here's another for you to play around with

@mlemweb @cwebber awesome!