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English: Five disks removed from a failed IBM Deskstar 75GXP serial number YSG8T0976 manufactured by IBM in Hungary in July 2001 and failed in a server at the University of Florida in April 2003. Ten heads crashed so severely that almost all the magnetic media was removed from the flying part of the disks surfaces revealing the transparent glass substrates. One disk in the upper left has some magnetic material on a portion of the head flying region.
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Source http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html
Author Ken Sallot and Tom Gardner

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Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Ken Sallot. This applies worldwide.
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By email Ken Sallot authorized Tom Gardner to modify his original photo and upload it to Wikimeida

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