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   linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:47:06 JST linear cannon

   a really tiny hard drive, for a really tiny NetWare server
   
   even if you know how small a CompactFlash card is, it's still hard to get across in a photo just exactly how tiny these things are

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:47:05 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @linear Tiny? IIRC they are like a quarter of a 3.5" floppy (I guess that, a CD and an SD card could be used for scale that's understandable to most).
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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:58:38 JST linear cannon

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     @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me here's a 3.5" floppy and an SD card adapter for scale

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:00:48 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @linear ooooh, I didn't grasp that it was an actual spinning rust drive wow, specially for 1TB where I still remember when in ~2010 1TB 2.5" HDD had an extra platter compared to others and so sometimes wouldn't fit.
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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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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @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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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:04:26 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @linear Also it reminds me of how the PSP had tiny optical disks.
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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:05:16 JST linear cannon

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me this thing's only 6 GB, but i imagine if they did this with modern drive tech, 1TB would be well within the realm of possibility (those newer HAMR drives have excellent data density)

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