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January 15th 16, 11:36 PM
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What wears out in an HDD?
On 01/14/2016 08:37 PM, masonc wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:48:18 +1100, "Rod Speed" wrote: So what clicks when the drive breaks? That's mostly the drive moving the heads to a known spot to recalibrate the position of the head arm. You kids may not remember the Commodore disk drive that always banged its head against the wall to learn its position. Users learned how to bend things back into place after too many head bangings. And it banged even more when it found a defect in the disk, like those intentional defects on commercial software disks. Oh, for the good old days ! -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "Never judge a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes, 'cuz by then, he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever the hell you want to." 
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