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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: jjleonard on 25 November 2008, 19:12:58
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for all you IT hardware types out there:
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/476-6-seagate-hard-drive.html
The dimensions of the head are impressive. With a width of less than a hundred nanometers and a thickness of about ten, it flies above the platter at a speed of up to 15,000 RPM, at a height that’s the equivalent of 40 atoms. If you start multiplying these infinitesimally small numbers, you begin to get an idea of their significance.
Consider this little comparison: if the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
* The head would fly at Mach 800
* At less than one centimeter from the ground
* And count every blade of grass
* Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
:o :o
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they are no so impressive when educated with Sammy Sledgehammer ::)
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for all you IT hardware types out there:
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/476-6-seagate-hard-drive.html
The dimensions of the head are impressive. With a width of less than a hundred nanometers and a thickness of about ten, it flies above the platter at a speed of up to 15,000 RPM, at a height that’s the equivalent of 40 atoms. If you start multiplying these infinitesimally small numbers, you begin to get an idea of their significance.
Consider this little comparison: if the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
* The head would fly at Mach 800
* At less than one centimeter from the ground
* And count every blade of grass
* Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
:o :o
That is a truly excellent fascinating fact. I will be boring all and sundry with that one in the smoking shelter tomorrow ;D ;D
Good post :y
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Another 15K RPM ..good to hear ..prices will go down a bit :)
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for all you IT hardware types out there:
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/476-6-seagate-hard-drive.html
The dimensions of the head are impressive. With a width of less than a hundred nanometers and a thickness of about ten, it flies above the platter at a speed of up to 15,000 RPM, at a height that’s the equivalent of 40 atoms. If you start multiplying these infinitesimally small numbers, you begin to get an idea of their significance.
Consider this little comparison: if the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
* The head would fly at Mach 800
* At less than one centimeter from the ground
* And count every blade of grass
* Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
:o :o
That is a truly excellent fascinating fact. I will be boring all and sundry with that one in the smoking shelter tomorrow ;D ;D
Good post :y
May I congratulate you on your excellent use of sarcasm. ;D ;D
It was sarcasm, wasn't it?
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May I congratulate you on your excellent use of sarcasm. ;D ;D
It was sarcasm, wasn't it?
Nope. Not at all.
A fascinating fact should be exactly that. It was.
It should also completely fail to enrich your life one jot. Tick in the box there too.
And I will probably be telling those that listen in the smoking shelter tomorrow. (Although I will pick my audience carefully...)
Straight up - good post :y
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May I congratulate you on your excellent use of sarcasm. ;D ;D
It was sarcasm, wasn't it?
Nope. Not at all.
A fascinating fact should be exactly that. It was.
It should also completely fail to enrich your life one jot. Tick in the box there too.
And I will probably be telling those that listen in the smoking shelter tomorrow. (Although I will pick my audience carefully...)
Straight up - good post :y
Thanks! I shall endeavour to provide more fascinating facts in due course! :y