From: random832@fastmail.us (random832@fastmail.us)
Subject: [TUHS] mkfs somewhere else?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:18:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1423768706.2152582.226788265.13389F90@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2c53cba0affff2f8d00de6bf7797cec.squirrel@www.ccil.org>
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015, at 10:50, cowan at ccil.org wrote:
> Dave Horsfall:
>
> > Not just that, but the aerodynamics have been screwed up. The heads will
> > no longer "float" on an air-cushion; I believe the gap is the traditional
> > human hair width, if that.
>
> Much larger. I remember seeing a scale drawing that showed the gap
> as half an inch or so, with a dust particle the size of a freaking
> mountain and a human hair that looked like a Tipler cylinder.
I think that's based on a modern hard drive, though. There's a reason
modern hard drives are sealed with air filters on the pressure
equalizing ports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-12 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-08 20:10 Norman Wilson
2015-02-12 15:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-12 15:50 ` cowan
2015-02-12 19:18 ` random832 [this message]
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2015-02-08 20:20 Norman Wilson
2015-02-08 20:12 Norman Wilson
2015-02-08 6:22 Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08 6:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-08 7:03 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08 7:15 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08 17:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-08 18:52 ` Jacob Ritorto
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