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Giz Explains: Everything You Need to Know About Hard Drives [Giz Explains]
gizmodo.com - 12/11/2008
Giz Explains: Everything You Need to Know About Hard Drives [Giz Explains]
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Some say that the end of the trusty hard drive is near, killed by SSD. But let's not be so quick to give up on a technology that stores a whole terabyte for $100. It'll be years before solid-state flash-memory disks (in this case usually referred to as SSDs) let us cheaply bank the same ...
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Gizmodo Explains Hard Drives Inside-Out [Hard Drives]
Lifehacker — [image] Not quite sure how your hard drive actually pulls data from a super-spinning disk? Confused about SATA, ATA, eSATA and the like? Sister site Gizmodo has a great Giz Explains post delving into the nuts and bolts of magnetic media.

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