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  • Why You Should Never Open A Hard Drive

    See our video below to find out why you should never open a hard drive.

    Transcript

    Instead of a needle, hard drives use tiny magnets to read and write data. The heads don’t actually touch the disc.

    But you’d only see that if you got close

    Super close

    The heads float just three nanometers above the disk

    In comparison, a spec of dust in the air is 166 times bigger than the gap.

    It would be like trying to kick a football through a gap the size of an ant

    So if that giant spec of dust can’t fit through the gap, it will hit the read head

    Bouncing it into the disc spinning at over 100mph

    And scraping away chunks of disc within seconds

    Up close the tiny scratches look like mountains

    The heads can’t get past the damage so just scratch it even more

    Until there’s nothing left but dust

    This is what we call a head crash

    Why You Should Never Open A Hard Drive

    And This is Why You Should Never Open a Hard Drive! (Unless You Have a Cleanroom)

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  • Where Has My Library Folder Gone?

    Starting with Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Apple decided to hide the Library folder within the User folder. It’s not gone, just hidden. Some crucial files like Mail accounts and iPhone backups get stored there, so there is a handy way to find the folder again.

    To find the hidden library folder, go to Finder and click the Go menu at the top of the screen. You will see a list of folders. Now if you press the alt / option key on your keyboard you will see the hidden library folder appear. This is only a temporary way in, and you will have to press the key again next time. The folder remains hidden the rest of the time.

  • Extreme Close-Up: Toshiba Hard Drive [video]

    This is a video of a functional Toshiba laptop drive. Using a macro lens, we are able to see what happens when you read or write data to or from a hard drive. You can also see how the hard drive parks the heads off the disks when the power is shut off. This is to protect the hard drive from shocks during transportation.

    It’s my first one of these videos so you can see my reflection in a couple of places, when I lean over to send different commands to the drive.