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> However, I've never seen glass deform plastically before. I didn't think
> it could do that.
No, it tends to fail before it deforms plastically. Doesn't mean glass
can't bend or exist in a bent state though (you just need some force to hold
it there).
> Have you handled a harddrive lately? It's basically a solid brick of steel
> with spaces inside it hollowed out for the platters and the motor.
Yes, and also about 10-15mm thick, so I fail to see how the case around the
platters is an inch thick.
> That's just it. If you take any feasible size motor and gear it down
> sufficiently to generate the collossal forces required, the thing would
> move so slowly it would make continental drift look fast. Yet this machine
> doesn't appear to do that...
You only need to crush a distance of about 10 mm, and I assume you want that
done in a few seconds, so I make that about 2mm/s, and given a 100W motor
that gives 50 kN. I haven't tried it, but it sounds enough to do some
serious damage to the drive...
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