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I don't see what makes this qualitatively more amazing than storing a terabyte in something the size of a wallet... At this point, we're comparing apples and ch
by Cushman 15y ago
I don't see what makes this qualitatively more amazing than storing a terabyte in something the size of a wallet... At this point, we're comparing apples and chestnuts.
If you don't frequently feel like you're living in the future, you're living in the past :)
- DanBC 15y agoI don't know if "no moving parts" makes it more or less impressive. Imagining a head float on a layer of air that's 0.0125 um thick, with electro magnetic heads always impresses me.
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- sliverstorm 15y agoWell, it's not like the hard drive has to work to get that layer of air. It's just a consequence of physics, right?
- whimsy 15y agoYes, but the fact that we can exploit that - and that we use the same physics for read heads as those we use for calculating flight - is pretty impressive, is it not?
- DanBC 15y agoI'm impressed we can build something mechanical to 0.5 microInches[1] in a mass-produced consumer grade product. And these are little bits of bent metal and coiled wired; not photographic etched wafers of chemically deposited semiconducting material. (A human hair is 200 microinches.)