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Well... technically most hard drives should change weight depending on their contents: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/is-a-hard-drive-heavier
by sgillen 7y ago
Well... technically most hard drives should change weight depending on their contents: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/is-a-hard-drive-heavier-when-it-is-full https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/is-a-hard-...
- anyfoo 7y agoOh wow. And now that I read this, it dawned on me that any memory technology that is based on storing charge (like DRAM) will have actual, albeit also very very theoretical, mass differences depending on bit value as well...
- lwansbrough 7y agoThe internet weighs about 50 grams: https://youtu.be/WaUzu-iksi8 https://youtu.be/WaUzu-iksi8
- mrob 7y agoHard disks use a run-length limited encoding, so the number of magnetic 1s and 0s remains roughly constant no matter what logical 1s and 0s you store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited