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The last seven hard disk drives that I have replace have all been Hitachi. Back in the day IBM had their own hard drive division. It made great sense, because they invented much of the technology that made magnetic disk possible. They sold this division to Hitachi a few years ago. I am sad to report that the company that made such a fantastic VCR and many other products has dropped the ball with hard disk drives.
While testing a hard disk speaker I stumbled on the idea of making a hard disk television. I owe it all to Elvis.
Old Hard Disk Drive disassembled exposing its guts to the macro camera.
Leica Monozoom 7 on Nikon D5100, ringlight
A half terabyte My Book connected to my Mac Mini via Firewire. I'm using it for remote backups of remotely hosted stuff at Redbus Interhouse.
Samsung demo'ing the fact that Solid State Drives (SSD) outperform hard disks in terms of Transactions Per Second (TPS - 7137 vs 1939 for regular HD's) and in terms of energy use (SSD's use 170W vs 286 for HD)
This is a nice bit of twisted metal, isn't it?
It's an old hard drive from somebody's laptop that Dave was decommissioning. We normally lock them in our WEEE bin and then the recyclers drop them into their shredding machine.
We went belt and braces on this one and Dave ripped the platters out and folded them in half.
It made for an interesting image.
Old Hard Disk Drive disassembled exposing its guts to the macro camera.
Leica Monozoom 7 on Nikon D5100, ringlight
ah, of little oranges and hard disk drives...
such is my life, of late.
a macro, just for fun..to keep from going crazy at work.
Old Hard Disk Drive disassembled exposing its guts to the macro camera.
Leica Monozoom 7 on Nikon D5100, ringlight
Vertical image of 3 hard disk drives on a black reflective surface with a blue background.
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Old Hard Disk Drive disassembled exposing its guts to the macro camera.
Leica Monozoom 7 on Nikon D5100, ringlight
Old Hard Disk Drive disassembled exposing its guts to the macro camera.
Leica Monozoom 7 on Nikon D5100, ringlight
Old Hard Disk Drive disassembled exposing its guts to the macro camera.
Leica Monozoom 7 on Nikon D5100, ringlight
This is a drive head, normally it is flat and not sticking up like that, but there is a tiny magnet on the tip of that which flips off and on depending on what "bit" needs to be written on a sector of the hard drive.
There is a Drive head on the top and bottom of each platter iside the hard drive, the platters are those shiney disks - which are normally flat but the impact of the sledge has bent them.
The more platters, the more data you can store on the drive, most drives have 1 or 2 platters in them, but some server drives can have 4-5 platters, what this also means is that a drive with more platters is faster because it can write simultaneously to more than one platter, so your data is spread out accross the platters instead of being all lined up next to one another.
These spin at anywhere from 4800 Rotations Per Minute(RPM) in a low end laptop hard drive, to 7200 RPM in a normal comptuer hard drive, to 15,000 RPM in a server or NAS(Network Attached Storage)
Imagine that? Spinning around over 7000 times in a single minute? For some perspective, the blades on a deli slicer spin at around 300 RPM. Imagine the meat you could slice with one of those?