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Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf]

by a022311 on 8/5/24, 8:10 AM with 25 comments

• by alexwasserman on 8/9/24, 3:37 PM

  There's a fantastic associated YouTube video that talks through these too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

  It's a rabbit hole that had be fascinated for quite a while.

• by jdietrich on 8/9/24, 6:02 PM

  For those who might not be aware, early computer memory relied on essentially the same principle:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

• by ivanjermakov on 8/9/24, 4:54 PM

  Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165

  Tom7 content deserves being posted every day though.

• by MostlyStable on 8/9/24, 5:39 PM

  I think this is a candidate for best two sentence combo ever written:

  So we have 1 million chainsaws per second, for 335.36 hours, which is 1.215 × 10^12, a configuration known as tera-wield. This requires expert juggling skills.

• by fragmede on 8/9/24, 4:55 PM

  Google calendar fs, using Google calendar to store data in events, was inspired by this. Any others?

• by e1gen-v on 8/9/24, 4:29 PM

  Tom7 is the goat. Love his videos.

• by baliex on 8/9/24, 5:12 PM

  Figure 1 is somehow beautiful in it's chaotic dis/organised structure, a representation of the whole internet, something which us humans now so heavily rely on

  ipv6 yadda yadda yadda

• by matonias on 8/10/24, 9:10 AM

  Nice grapixhs