Question Shattered a hard drive platter. Is it dangerous?

[sloan1209]

I found an old laptop that I haven't used in years. Just to explore, I started taking apart the hard drive and exposed the platters. I didn't have glove or anything on. Luckily, I was outside when I decided to take pliers and bend them. They shattered into a million pieces. I swept up what I could and it wasn't until after that I wondered if there's any hazardous materials in it.

 

[COLGeek]

Nope. You are fine.

 

[NedSmelly]

For future reference: 2.5” HDD platters are made of glass, whilst 3.5” ones are metal.

 

[letmepicyou]

For future reference: 2.5” HDD platters are made of glass, whilst 3.5” ones are metal.

There are a few 3.5" that used glass. The 75GXP "Deathstar" was glass, wasn't it? I'm sure there are others.