Comment Surely you jest... this is hoarding? (Score 1) 268
I bet we can do a lot better than these rank amateurs. Rally, Slashdot!
I bet we can do a lot better than these rank amateurs. Rally, Slashdot!
Hard disks aren't sealed, there's always (at least, on the dozens of disks I've taken apart) a little felt-pad or sticker covered vent on them. I figured it was for equalisation or something crazy, but I'm not positive.
Given hard disks aren't sealed, wouldn't they fill with fluid and assuming they'd still function with a liquid screwing up the head mechanism (given modern disk's head's float above the platter surface on a cushion of air) wouldn't the increased viscosity slow down seek events?
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