ever wonder what your hard drive looks like when its creating a folder? copy/pasting? quick format?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMWG3fwiEU

 

Ive dont that for a school project before. People love it.

 

seen it

 

Very cool. No wonder they break so much....I can't wait for solid state hard drives.

 

Watching this makes me want to backup my data ASAP.

 

They have them, but they are expensive. You are better off running a RAID 5 Array.

 

Im waiting for them to be affordable...

 

They are...?


I've scored SCSI RAID HDs for cheap off of old Proliant servers off the bargain finders and on the web in my past job.

 

I hadn't wondered, but now I don't have to. Pretty cool.

 

He was talking about solid state drives.

 

 

It took 20 seconds to delete a folder... which equates to gigs of stuff.

 

The new WD raptors have a window on them... those are some baad hdds

 

Raid 1+0 ftw

 

No - that's an old/slow samsung drive. Looks like a 2-4 gig drive.

 

Most likely porn.

 

HDD's are one of the most complicated devices we have, utilizing many many different technologies.... Yes, it is amazing these things work at all....

Aerodynamics
Magnetic Recording
Material Science
High speed motor design
Servo control (DSP)
Analog ASIC
Digital ASIC
Thin film processes
Embedded controllers
Performance algorithms
Software simulations
Analog signal processsing
Voice Coil Motor Control
High volume manufacturing
Data encoding
Error correction codes
High speed digital signal processing
Fluid dynamics
Electronics
Digital computer interfaces
Predictive Failure Analysis
Thermal Dynamics
Tight tolerance mechanical design
Spindle Motor Control
Ability to deal with users dropping their laptops or harddrives....

 

impressive. as nerdy as i am... i never did open a HD while in use...

shame on me.