[Cialug] Hard Drive Teardown

[Todd Walton]

Neat video on hard drives.

Hard drive teardown
http://machineslikeus.com/videos/hard-drive-teardown

Bill Hammack opens up a computer hard drive to show how it is
engineered. He describes how the "head" reads the magnetic information
on the disk; reveals how a voice coil motor and a slider controls the
position of that head. He also discusses how smooth a disk must be,
and briefly mentions a mathematical technique that allows engineers to
pack more information on a drive.

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Todd