My answer?  I don’t know.

I Googled and binged but nothing came up.  My guess is that it’s either to prevent corrosion or the paint is nonconductive to prevent the PCB from short circuiting or it has antimagnetic properties.

That’s what a typical hard drive looks like with the cover removed.  Notice how the inside and outside shell is painted black?  But the 6 none painted squares are where the cover is screwed down to.  Some hard drive’s top edge is not even painted black, like the one sitting on my desk which I use as a coaster.

Some hard drive’s top cover is painted black to match but most of them are not painted, leaving it in its natural aluminum color.  Back in the day there are a few drives that are not painted and now almost all the hard drives you buy today are painted black.

What is the purpose of the paint?  Why does it have to be black?

It was a hard day’s work defending the castle against the Blue team from rescuing their Princess.  OMG!  She was a pain in the a**.  She was cute at first saying she hungry and all so I figured I get her a piece of cake I found in the forest.  The more she ate the more demanding she got ANNND she became this Fat Princess!  She demanded more cake and started yelling “FEED MEEE!”, “I’M HUNGRYYY!”, “MORE CAKEEE!” as I make my way around the castle.  As if I don’t have enough work to do already!  GOSH!  I’ve been busy chopping wood and mining metal to upgrade the hat machines so our troops can come home with OUR Princess in hand.  On the other hand…if she’s fat it’ll be harder for the other team to rescue her!  BWAHAHAHAHA!  So I kept feeding her until she’s like 500 pounds.

Awww, she’s adorable!

Here’s me busy mining.

Here’s me rushing cake back to the demanding eating machine.

Daaaaamn!  She got BIG fast.

If that wasn’t enough, some of the other workers have been slacking off.  They also thought it was funny to play a joke by throwing a lit bomb at me…ha…ha.  *Sigh*  Why can’t they just help me fix things around the castle!?  Lazy bastards.

Hard at work upgrading the hat machine.

Anyways, I later promoted myself to other classes and decided to stretch my legs on the battlefield.  Ohh it feels good to get my blood pumping and wreak havoc on the blue team.  Let’s see…I defended the outposts as a Ranger, hacked up some people as a Swordsman, cast some magical spells as a Mage or Priest.  I even used the magic potion and turned some of them into chickens!  So good!  The battles are fun, each class have unique weapons and abilities, and it’s super easy to learn.

Defending ma outpost.  Get away you!

Clean up on aisle 4!

Epic battle.

The biggest downside of fighting out there was the lack of communication.  You see in the land of PlayStation 3 not a lot of people have mics so it was a bit of a struggle to get some coordination.  Especially with the Princess being a bit on the heavy side, you NEED help carrying her home!  Some people just like to be heroes, the ol’ knight in shiny armor, Prince of her dreams bull crap.  We need to communicate and coordinate our efforts!  Eventually we won the battle and rescued our Princess.  She is safe now…eating her cakes.

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