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the interior of a Seagate ST-1 hard drive, which has been opened up. it is the size of a CompactFlash card, but has a complete mechanical hard drive inside, with a metallic platter, and a magnetic voice-coil read head connected through ribbon cables to the drive electronics.

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the interior of a Seagate ST-1 hard drive, which has been opened up. it is the size of a CompactFlash card, but has a complete mechanical hard drive inside, with a metallic platter, and a magnetic voice-coil read head connected through ribbon cables to the drive electronics.
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:00:51 JST linear cannon
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me and yeah, sure, there are other, smaller, higher capacity storage media abound these days, but i just want to reiterate, this is a hard drive, with a spinning platter and voice-coil read head and the works

(photo from Wikipedia user Teravolt, aka Adam Munich; CC BY 3.0)

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