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Video: Inside of a Hard Drive (direct link)
engr.colostate.edu — Shows how fast the servo arm on the hard drive can move. Impressive.
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- timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2old
- intricate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0still cool
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^ sorry, i accidentally posted that link
P.S. this is why we need a feature to allow people to edit their own comments - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was cool.
- fanboydcs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very neat, makes you wonder how ipod harddrives stay alive with people working out and jogging, and dropping them when they are seeking.
- dareiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0HOLY CRAP...
That was really impressive.. yeah, now i want to see a microdrive do that.. - macgabriel87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's freaking awesome. it really looks like a ghost image. really interesting.
- Lacrossedragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool nice dig.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Really cool. I second the Idea of doing one of these for microdrives... or maybe a working SATA drive or Raptor.
Digg++ - Unr3a1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0downloading, downloading, downloading... this is taking forever some reason
- Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0neat
- CompUComp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I never knew it could move so quickly! You got my digg on this!
- jtdgrz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very impressive, dugg.
- OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1DUPE DUPE DUPE!!!!
Please stop submitting this people! - karch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very interesting.
- PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i took an old four gig drive apart.. and booted win98 with it open... worked fine for a while dust got it angry.
- Sibertank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whoa, I dident know it moved that fast, I though that it might be like a sped up video, wow.
- green1152, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's intense.
- flowaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where's the video which shows the head jamming itself into the disc and killing all your porn?
- wet_napkin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0God damn WMV... *digs out Windows Media Player* ...Wow neat.
- Starforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Having taken a few apart and watched them do their thing, I'm still amazed at how fast that arm moves and the whole thing lasts for years upon years with continuous operation!
- bdxphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Meh, you just took a posted in the slow-motion water ballon pop and made a story about it. (And that link was to an old digg post, so...no digg for you.)
- incognegro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amazing, old or not
- SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0NICE
- twalker294, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool, great story. Dugg!
- Schone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1New respect for hard disk drives now.. amazing devices...
The arm and the drive head must be really light to be able to move that fast.. the inertia... - plefno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is freaking awesome.
- sp1nm0nkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, he seems to be locking onto some words...
I liked it, shows just how fast a voicecoil can really go. +digg - letterten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0way cool. really makes you think about how hard an HD works.
- tatical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW, no wonder why they keep failing.
- brbeaird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy crap...this should be shown as reasons for keeping your stuff backed up. Hard to believe HDD's last as long as they do what that kind of abuse.
- gaius_baltar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0***** that it's a WMV
- dlichteman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, awesome video
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I'm very impressed by his ability to speed up his video by 40000% and merge in audio. Astonishing.
- TehSuper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Really cool.
- Lite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool
- matt.rubin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think we killed the website heres the same video i found on google
http://www.zippyvideos.com/194785976991255/computer_hard-drive/ - zugzug, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Fine except the guy on the video talks too much. His voice is annoying too.
- dongratius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very good...I don't know why they dont have a few reading heads....then they wouldn't have to move as far...then wouldn't that be quicker and more reliable!? probably a very good reason.
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dongratius if you look closely you'll see that there are multiple heads, two per platter (and that harddrive has two platters.) Although they are all locked. I don't know what the viability of using independent actuators for each arm would be but I suspect if it was cost effective and provided improvement it would have been done.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yeah... I knew dem niggas was doing something really cool and fast!
Nice to see it, though!
way cool!
digg! - b_timmins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not sped up, in fact because of the video (camera and screen) refresh rate you can only see half of the movements. You only see a picture about every 20ms (at 50 frames per second) but the access time (including settling down on the track) is around 11ms.
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the funny thing is i saw this video before i saw http://www.wdraptorx.com/index.asp?bhcp=1 western digital lies!!!!!
- mrjeffery, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Fine except the guy on the video talks too much. His voice is annoying too."
Your stupid comments are more annoying. - extremus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, the servo moves so fast, makes me wonder why my 3 year old hard drive still keeps going!
- st0ney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't believe that these things don't break more often.
- abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice! The best is the three position seek...
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http://hackedgadgets.com - *Ica*, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That guy has a funky accent, northern England mixed with Aussie!
Got my digg though, again I had no clue they moved that quickly. -
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