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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.



  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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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