The under-appreciated harddrive gets torn apart and explained (video)

We do not find out about you, but we generally don’t give much thought to our hard drives or how they work. And that is a shame because, as you can see out inside the video after the break, they’re veritable miracles of recent science. Bill Hammack, often referred to as Engineer Guy , takes us on an in depth tour of the internal workings of the ever present hard disk — from the Lorentz Force driven arm, to the pinnacle that floats an insignificant 10nm above the layered cobalt platters due to the wonders of aerodynamics. Maybe after this lesson in modern magnetic storage from Mr. Hammack you’ll appreciate how even more there’s to storing your number of Mission of Burma b-sides than just printing ones and zeros on a glittery, spinning thing.

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