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Inside a Hard Drive
« on: December 10, 2008, 03:26:39 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G6cwu1XBM

I just made this video with an old hard drive I had.
Pretty sweet in real life. When defragging or doing multiple things on the drive (copying and pasting at the same time), it looks as if the arm is in two places at once, that's how fast it is.

Not sure why it's so bad quality....It's fine on my computer. I guess I'm just not a Youtuber. :D

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 05:25:31 AM »

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 06:27:20 AM »

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2008, 02:29:37 PM »
neat! I tried to do this also, but I think the HD I took apart had a broken controller board. It span up, but the computer didn't detect it; that was a waste of a 50MB drive, that's for sure.


I didn't realise how easy Youtube is. :P

Trust me, sometimes I think it's TOO easy. Like all the Super mario 64 videos...

"DER! I'm gonna run around and do stupid stuff and show bold blue captions annotating old cliches!"

I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2008, 09:03:02 PM »
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"DER! I'm gonna run around and do stupid stuff and show bold blue captions annotating old cliches!"
Yeah.....my brother sometimes watches something similar. Commentary of video games.
I absolutely hate them and think they're a waste of time.

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2008, 09:24:29 PM »
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"DER! I'm gonna run around and do stupid stuff and show bold blue captions annotating old cliches!"
Yeah.....my brother sometimes watches something similar. Commentary of video games.
I absolutely hate them and think they're a waste of time.

my favourite part is how all the comments are praising the poster for his taste in music, which sounds more like people throwing up in the background. Almost never a comment on, you know, the actual video. Which is good, because I'm sure half of them would just be "Wow! near the beginning though, how did you jump?"

Let's not forget all the game videos recording some secret that doesn't even exist, with obvious video glitches where they've edited it or hacked the textures or whatnot.


Anyway; the HD thing reminds me of a passage from my PC book, where the author talks about the bewildered stares he get's from his students when he runs the HD without a cover.
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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2008, 09:26:51 PM »
Don't waste your time! Go back to HOMEWORK!! ;D

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2008, 09:27:59 PM »
Don't waste your time! Go back to HOMEWORK!! ;D
*sigh* It's just so fascinating to see how quickly that thing moves. :D

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2008, 09:29:45 PM »
OMG! I thought of something- replace the magnetic disks with paper, and attach a pen to the end of the arm... we have an automated spirograph.. sort of.
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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2008, 09:31:09 PM »
If you don't go back to homework, you'll also see how fast your father's belt moves :D

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2008, 09:34:26 PM »
BC
Try stomping irregularly next to it, and you're gonna have seismograph.... :D

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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2008, 09:37:09 PM »
which reminds me of when I tried to examine the innards of my old HD.

Didn't work, as I said, so I pushed the read head into the platter to "simulate" a head crash. the sound was very unpleasant. but somehow, it felt good, like disemboweling a demon or eviscerating a alien. Am I making any sense?

Unfortunately I didn't write down my "observations" or scientific method; I guess I just hate paperwork is all.
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Re: Inside a Hard Drive
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2008, 05:44:26 AM »
Nice Carbon D... :) It looked like PeckerWood feeding.. ;D
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    Re: Inside a Hard Drive
    « Reply #13 on: December 11, 2008, 11:10:27 AM »
    Wow!
    You need to workout. The veins are from not enough circulation and will only get worse if you don't get moving. The indentations are cellulite and jogging an hour everyday will help get rid of it.

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    Re: Inside a Hard Drive
    « Reply #14 on: December 13, 2008, 05:08:23 PM »
    woa neat!