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This is mostly it. The floating head, plus the much smaller head size is what allows a more dense packing of tracks per inch on the disk. It's almost like hav
by pmiller2 6y ago
This is mostly it. The floating head, plus the much smaller head size is what allows a more dense packing of tracks per inch on the disk. It's almost like having a mini HD where the platter is removable.
- ineedasername 6y agoplatter is removable I remember repairing discs by swapping to the shell of a new one when something like the mini spring broke.
- pmiller2 6y agoHah, fair enough. I suppose I should have said "designed to be removable." :)
- rainbowzootsuit 6y agoI had SyQuest 105MB and then later iomega Zip drives. The SyQuest cartridges had a translucent shell and it was a shiny metallic HDD platter in there while. When you put in a platter you got a whole sound of the HDD whir to spin up and then clackity-clack when the heads loaded and started moving around. Always a little tension until the drive mounted. I think the Zip used more of a brown plastic type of disk. The loading was more of a low chunck-chunck sound. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology