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Originally Posted by Hugh
A hard drive has moving parts - a HDD uses magnetism to store data on a rotating platter, and the read/write head floats above the spinning platter reading and writing data.
If it didn't have moving parts, it wouldn't work.
Unless, of course, it's a SSD (Solid State Drive)...
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Will laser drives still need moving parts?
Not heard of these until Horizon mentioned them in another thread:
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Originally Posted by Horizon
Choice.
I only have the choice of watching something if its on my hard drives, I don't have that choice if I don't have large drives.
Netflix, Now TV etc are all good except when you want to watch a tv episode and find that that episode or even the entire season of a series has been removed.
Roll on laser drives and over the next decade 100TB drives.
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