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Physical Hard-Disk Data Arrangements and Drive Failures?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday April 1, 2003 @04:51AM from the theoretical-weight-of-information dept.

Tadau asks: "Knowing not much of the low-level and molecular aspects of a hard drive platter, I'm wondering if it is possible to cause a weight change/imbalance on a hard drive platter by say writing solid 1's to approximately 1/2 of a side of the platter? If there is a weight change, then could that attribute to drive vibrations by an ever-so-slightly unbalanced platter, which may result in an eventual drive failure?"

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Simple answer by missing000 · 2003-04-01 05:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

No.

If you could however write all 1's to all the harddrives in the Southern Hemisphere it would likely cause a polarity shift on the earth however. (AF)