Disk Drives Explained

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Sunday July 13, 2003 @12:07AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Magnetic disk drives are one of those things I usually take for granted without thinking about, but I recently realized how little I understood about how they really work. ACM Queue has an article from their 'Storage' issue titled, 'You Don't Know Jack About Disks', which does a very good job of explaining exactly how magnetic disks have evolved since the 70s and how they work today."

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First Post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 00:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fucking bullshit.
FP by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 00:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

heh, always wanted to do that
1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 00:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Well, you didn't. I did.
  
  YOU FUCKING FAIL IT.
  
  Now go cry in your diaper.
Re:just in time... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 00:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Controller Mod: Nintendo Gameglove to USB Vagina
Re:just in time... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 00:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It may be an open source businessmode.

1: Make free software.
2: ?
3: Understand how magnetic disks work.
4: Profit!
No way. by ieatfood · 2003-07-13 00:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No way d00dz. Now I'm gonna haffta tell the kid at my school who built a Hard drive for his science fair project to read that article. I feel so 1224.

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It's dead, Jim. by Detritus · 2003-07-13 00:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in db/db.php on line 88

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Re:Nintendo Gamecube by hbackert · 2003-07-13 00:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

BTW, don't care to read the full thread. It does not contain any informations, but lots of bad language.
Re:This is a great paper. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 03:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

they're called CD's you facious-fuck-face.

blow me pleas
RIAA can kiss my *ss by tfcdesign · 2003-07-13 07:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The whole price system for internet broadcasting should be NO DIFFERENT from traditional radio broadcasting.

They should be paying us.