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- skinturtle, on 11/01/2007, -2/+198what kind of a nerd am I that sat and watched that whole thing?
- gnychis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+186I wanna see that bad boy defrag!
- Nikonian, on 08/17/2008, -1/+182Thats pretty cool how the hard drive will display the words of what its actually doing.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/10/2007, -4/+110CLICK HERE NOW!!! HAWT!! HARD DRIVE REFORMATS, RAID ON RAID, HOT SATA MODELS!!!
- Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -5/+104I know of a paysite. PM me for details.
- subxero37, on 10/10/2007, -2/+93Beautiful technology at work. Newer drives intentionally lower the armature/actuator speed to decrease noise, which can sometimes affect drive performance, but to be honest, I kinda miss hearing the click-click-click of the days of old. Besides, if you can't hear the drive, it also means you can't hear the drive failing; the noise produced by most hard drives is meaningful and useful. It used to put me to sleep at night.
- holygram, on 10/10/2007, -4/+69I, too, ejaculate when I hear a hard drive.
- drinkdrankdrunk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+54**Turns old hard drive into a pottery wheel**
- bacio, on 10/10/2007, -4/+51**moves away from hard drive to breath**
- Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+42I bet you'd find most evenings around my place quite hypnotizing.
- chrisbarr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38Or here's another fun use for the platters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8
- johnpowell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36The same kind of nerd that I am. I found it fascinating.
- BrainRecall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34Actually, yes, the head moving. The edge of the arm moves fast enough to create a pressure wave. When it stops that energy continues as sound, just like a speaker.
Now, older hard drives (we're talking 15 years or greater old) used stepper motors to control the heads. Some noise was caused by the stepper motor itself, and the head didn't move nearly as fast. Current technology uses voice-coils (just like a speaker) which push against some of the strongest magnets on the planet (neodymium-iron-boron magnets, aka rare earth magnets). Yes, hard drives have magnets. If you manage to tear apart a hard drive, you'll discover just how incredibly strong those suckers are. - BrainRecall, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Ugh, digg ate my edit.
PS: Do not operate a modern drive with the cover off of it like that. The head hovers on a cushion of air at about a micron above the surface of a platter. At those distances, a spec of dust is a boulder, and will cause the head to crash into the platter surface. That leads to permanent data loss and potential drive failure. - Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34I went to a few RAID sites.. but they're all so fake. I prefer high rez stuff with external drives
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Go you.
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29SATA is too softcore for me =[
- FoxOrian, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28Man, I love doing that do broken hard drives I own. Pop off the top and let it do its thing when its trying to boot. It's amazing how fast the head moves, faster than most normal cameras can record.
The best part is harvesting those magnets out of them after you're finished with it. Those magnets that move the head will strip the paint off of a refrigerator door when dragged! - airwalkery2k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24I always was a little curious about that, but never so much so that I took one apart. Thanks, Youtube and Digg!
- NeoPlatonist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Is it more sad that I watched it twice?
- anthonywr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18If you wish.
Individual results will vary. - Renton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Well since he formatted it...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Back in highschool we've opened a hard disk and replaced the top with a translucent plastic cover. I've visited the school a few months ago, and it still works after 5 years, and everyone can see it spin.
- ppikachu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I just get a chill down my spine when I think that all my hard work is depending on that unnoticed mechanism that keeps doing its thing...
- SmackMyMac, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Yeah, but can I shave with it?
- arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16As if "fail" isn't bad enough.. you had to go and do that. I hate internet catchphrases, and everyone who uses them.
- fantasticjon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13ok, as most of us know, the quick format just deletes the partition table. The HDD arm moving across the platter was not doing anything to the platters, it was just moving to the location where the partition table was located so it could delete it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14It could do the blending
- Dirtynoodle111, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBBBQKXGUYI&NR=1
I like this one better for some reason.
Still interesting nonetheless. - strangewill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10No a real nerd would turn their harddrive into a speaker. ;)
- Xplodzion, on 11/01/2007, -1/+9Youtube Comment:
zero818 (3 weeks ago)
i opened my hard drive yesterday, and now it doesnt work :( any ideas how to fix it or something????
STUPIDTY: taken to a whole new level. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10... Huh?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11It's a little hypnotic... the sound and motion of the arm.
- windowsrookie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9And now people are going to complain that their hard drives aren't working after they attempt to open them....
- xyqxyq, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13Thread won. Please go up to the front desk to claim your prize.
- yoshitomi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Dry.. very nice.
- chrysb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Don't think about your heart then :)
- OrangeCrush, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7That'll erase it beyond the reach of software recovery tools, but for the extra paranoid who want to thwart more advanced laboratory data recovery, use /dev/random. Several times. Or just rip the thing out and torch or pulverize it.
- OrangeCrush, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Not really. iPhones have flash memory and no mechanical drive.
(yeah, yeah, there are flash based "hard drives" nowadays. Get off my lawn!) - clark24, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Abort, retry, or cancel?
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Yeah, SCSI really gets me hard.
- xyphur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7"...It used to put me to sleep at night."
Oh, mine still do. The odd time I attempt to sleep when my machines are down for maintenance/cleaning, I find it almost impossible to do so. I need the whir of drives and the hum of fans to send me into slumber. Having six IBM 10k u160 drives in an eServer 15' from my bed contributes nicely to that necessity, among other equipment. :) - 80hd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yeah, it sucks when something seems so at first. I hope the guy that made this video never intended for people to think that the head moving between the inner and outer tracks was the actual format happening and not just the drive writing to the fat, mbr etc..
- Motocompo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Amen!
- djpants428, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8this is digg? i thought this was sparta...
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
- KennMac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I always loved how "Fail" was an option.
- 80hd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6What I really hate about digg recently is that it's gotten impossible to tell who's making fun of the retards that flooded this place, and who those retards are.
- cyberoidx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4BURY -> not nearly as cool as the old digg comments where they actually posted sensefull stuff.
Sepultra did a really cool one a while back. - whatexcusenow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yeah horray for video that's been edited to take the credit from the original author: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMWG3fwiEU
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