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A Hard Drive in Action

video A Hard Drive in Action
I found this neat video of a hard drive in action and thought I would share it. It's just kind of interesting.
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Dec 25, 2008. 2:29 PMthermoelectric says:
The next Hdd I get, I'll record a video of it doing this, How do you think he got it to boot so quick? Standby?
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Dec 25, 2008. 8:08 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
Idk. It might be a clean install, maybe a linux distro or something. That's a good question.
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Dec 25, 2008. 8:10 PMthermoelectric says:
Yeah, That's possible.....
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Mar 9, 2010. 5:35 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
You know, I still haven't seen a video of an HDD doing this from you...
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Apr 16, 2010. 6:37 AMthermoelectric says:
You are right. I need to try to do this one day.
Nov 17, 2008. 5:09 PMravebot says:
whoooooooooooo sick like the copy/paste twitching
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Nov 17, 2008. 7:48 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
Yeah, it's the head going back and forth to delete and/or access fragmented bits.
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Oct 10, 2008. 6:48 AMthermoelectric says:
Darn, Why did I have to pull apart all those old HDD's (20+) that I got from the computer store...
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Oct 10, 2008. 3:26 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
Wow, that's pretty lucky.

It is kind of sad to see them go to waste, though...
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Oct 10, 2008. 3:32 PMthermoelectric says:
They were all supposedly broken (i should of tested them before my ripping apart piece of mind came in) and some were 120gb!
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Oct 28, 2008. 3:32 PMJellyWoo says:
lucky!
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Oct 28, 2008. 11:35 PMthermoelectric says:
But they were broken :-(
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Oct 29, 2008. 4:50 PMJellyWoo says:
fix them.
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Nov 2, 2008. 12:59 PMthermoelectric says:
Too late.......
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Nov 2, 2008. 5:26 PMJellyWoo says:
*sniff*
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Nov 2, 2008. 9:16 PMthermoelectric says:
LOL
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Nov 3, 2008. 12:53 PMJellyWoo says:
you could always look for them in the dump...
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Nov 3, 2008. 1:13 PMthermoelectric says:
Yeah, But they wouldn't be big, Although my dad found a 5KVA Generator at the dump, and it just needed to be cleaned up and it works.....
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Nov 3, 2008. 5:29 PMJellyWoo says:
oh
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Nov 3, 2008. 9:19 PMthermoelectric says:
Its loud, Its vibrating, and its a very scary generator......
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Nov 4, 2008. 1:22 PMJellyWoo says:
*sniff* i want my mommy!
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Nov 4, 2008. 9:10 PMthermoelectric says:
LOL!!!!!!!
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Nov 5, 2008. 12:49 PMJellyWoo says:
MOM!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! she's not home.
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Nov 5, 2008. 12:53 PMthermoelectric says:
Yay!!!
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Nov 5, 2008. 1:16 PMJellyWoo says:
*sigh* you'll never learn. DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nov 5, 2008. 10:06 PMthermoelectric says:
Lol, Darn
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Nov 6, 2008. 9:50 AMJellyWoo says:
tehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nov 6, 2008. 12:18 PMthermoelectric says:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ehehehehehet
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Nov 6, 2008. 1:03 PMJellyWoo says:
Mr. Reverse
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Nov 9, 2008. 7:18 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
.yppahpals eb tsum I .ynnuf taht neve ton s'ti dna ,lfoR

Rofl, and it's not even that funny. I must be slaphappy.
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Nov 10, 2008. 12:39 AMthermoelectric says:
Hehehehehee, LOL, Slaphappy :-P
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Nov 10, 2008. 5:33 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
Haha, I am right now, too...
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Nov 10, 2008. 6:33 PMthermoelectric says:
Lol...
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Nov 10, 2008. 7:24 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
Ok, maybe not now.
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Nov 10, 2008. 9:13 PMthermoelectric says:
I knew it
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Nov 10, 2008. 1:37 PMJellyWoo says:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ahahahahahahahahahahah
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Nov 10, 2008. 3:06 PMthermoelectric says:
LOL

Reverse that :-P
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Nov 11, 2008. 6:21 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
LOL, by the way...
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Nov 11, 2008. 8:53 PMthermoelectric says:
Hehe, By the way what?
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Nov 11, 2008. 9:23 PMpuffyfluff (author) says:
.mvN

...desrever s'tI .S.P
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I live in Estes Park, Colorado. I like anything to do with science and I do a lot of sciency things.