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Inside of Hard Drive
By admin | December 27, 2008
Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside.
This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky.
Joshua Marius
www.letheonline.net
Topics: Disk Imaging |
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
1. Its not a needle, it doesn’t even tough the disk in operation.
2. Modern hard drives (especially notebook drives) have features that park the read heads if any “unexpected movements” occur.
Still thats no reason to be rough with your hard drive.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Does the hard drive handle noise make the noise on the computer’s loading sound. That’s what probably makes that noise on the computer.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
so thats what the noise inside my computer is lol i though my hard drive was dieing
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
omg i would soooooo whatch that espically how fast the read/write arms move wow
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
wow..
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
The actual precise mechanics of a hard drive is absolutely amazing.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
ehh… the write speeds on SSDs right now are sooooo freakin’ slow!
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
it’s only a disc with a needle that’s it mostly .. that’s also one of the reasons why you should avoid moving your pc while it’s on, since the needle can do unexpected movements etc.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
…man we REALLY need Solid State Drives to get cheaper…
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
That sounds like a great idea
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I have a question if u replace or add another Hard drive he add free space in PC rite?
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
interesting
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
ofcourse it’s possible lol, otherwise i wouldn’t tell about that camera…there’s even a show on Discovery channel called ”Time Warp” where they film stuff with that 20,000fps camera…
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I don’t think 20 Thousand FPS is possible yet…
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
this would be awesome when filmed with 20,000fps camera and zoomed very very close…
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
so its all basically a disk only!??? phew!??
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
i never knew it was a disc like thing!!!
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
cool!!
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
With desktop drives (most of them anyhow, not Hitachi or recent Western Digitals though) the heads touch the disk only when the disk is not spinning, or when it is slowing down/speeding up when its turned off/on.
If the head touches during operating, it’s called a head crash/head slap.
With Hitachi/recent WDs/laptop drives, there is a little ramp that the heads go on when off. For those drives, the heads should NEVER touch the disk.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
You’re welcome. Part two coming soon ;-D
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
That’s really awesome! I’ve always wondered what it looks like.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Well I was gonna say no you may NOT ask, but you already have so I may as well answer.
No I’m not blonde, why would you think that (if I may ask)?
December 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Joshua, that was an excellent video. I always wondered how was the movement of the mechanical arm but was too afraid of wasting a hard drive. Thanks for the sacrifice lol.