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It seems like drives would be better off with their own built in isolation. Wonder why it doesn’t work out that way. Elasticity of the materials and the gap bet
by hinkley 11mo ago
It seems like drives would be better off with their own built in isolation. Wonder why it doesn’t work out that way. Elasticity of the materials and the gap between the axle and the arm? Space?
- rasz 11mo agoSome laptops, Toughbooks and Thinkpads come to mind, mounted drive on foam pads or in rubber gaskets. A lot of MFM era drives up to mid eighties used to suspend mechanical part on rubber isolated posts.
- hinkley 11mo agoThinkpads also introduced accelerometers to park the heads when a laptop leaves a desk before it can hit the ground. Seems like at some point they decided the extra square millimeters were more useful for something else, like making the laptop a half a mm thinner.