Everything Hard drives! For those that missed some of these cool things

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Everything Hard drives! For those that missed some of these cool things (NOT A GUIDE)

I will keep adding as I find more - feel free to submit links and I will add them to the list!

(please note, this is not a guide or howto, but rather a collection of links that have been of interest to me)

NEW RELEASES AND NEWS

Toshiba 100GB 1.8" drive
Samsung 160GB 1.8" drive
Seagate is world's largest hard drive vendor
Seagate produces world's fastest hard drive
Toshiba 0.85" drive
World's smallest drive
Portable media filled drives for troops
World's smallest drive 2
WD green drives
Seagate gigabyte court case
Best buy HDD made of tiles
CFast - new SATA compact flash storage interface


GENERAL INTEREST

Biggest hard drive ever
Biggest hard drive available
14" platter
Facts about hard drives
How defrag works
Facts about storage
What is an IDE hard drive?
Rules for working with hard drives and guarding data
Drive copy/imageing
Random links
Wiki on Superparamagnetism
Many high speed videos - some of hard drives - look at mechatronics
Fire-safe drive
42GB DVD disc (Not bluray or HD-DVD, just normal DVD)


OLD HARD DRIVES

Old and new
IBM huge 1GB drive
Old article about the first 25GB drive
Hard drive history
Hard drive history 2
History of cost of storage
World's first hard drive
Dan's antique computer collection - not directly related, but still amazing
Vintage MFM - RLL drives for sale
Vintage IDE for sale
Vintage SCSI for sale
Wiki history of the hard drive
10meg drive - $3,495
80's Biological drive
5 obsolete storage formats
History of data storage in pictures


CLOCKS

Amazing LED clock
Very cool mechanical clock
Original link to mechanical clock
electric clock

OSCILLOSCOPE and others

10$ XY laser scanner
Dual hard drive oscilloscope
Laser shutter

SPEAKERS

Spring speaker
Afrotech's speakers
Another speaker
Improved speakers
Speaker bass test

WINDOW

Grynx full plexi top
overclockers.com window
Creative mods window
Hack a day window
Linear1 window

INNER WORKINGS

Hard disk basics
Wiki HDD
Howstuffworks - hard drive
Disk assembly
How heads work
Servo formatting - how it works
Inside of a drive
Inner movements

RECOVERY

Cold facts on recovery
Top 10 DATA recovery companies
Hard drive failure
News clip on recovery process and labs
amazing recovery
retrodata UK


ENCRYPTION AND CRACKING

interesting article on how long decryption takes
protection methods and cracking
Same as above, but different site
drive encryption tool - can decrypt
Another drive encryption link
yet another drive encryption link
300+ encryption programs
advanced-efs-data-recovery - can decrypt

DESTROY

Blow torch on drive
Screw driver to running platter
drive eraser

GENERAL MODDING

Case made of drives
Hard drive in UPS
7 things to do with a drive
Top 5 dead hard drive projects
6 things to do with a drive
LEGO hard drive
Case made of drives 2
10 strangest hard drive projects

OTHER/CRAZY MODS

Tesla turbine
Generator
Grinder

EXPENSIVE

Golden hard drive
USB stick made by perfume company


BORED PEOPLE

Hard drive dominoes
Drive platters released
Motorcycle
Song of dying hard drive wins competition

REFERENCES

All the sites I linked to, DU'H!

STILL TO BE CATEGORIZED

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Thanks Bing!

 

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no-one else have anything to add?

 

[Seinken]

The post itself feels like it's lacking something, perhaps a slight description of every link, i don't know what I'm clicking on when I hit 'em.

 

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The post itself feels like it's lacking something, perhaps a slight description of every link, i don't know what I'm clicking on when I hit 'em.

Thanks for the tip - Initially I thought it would be cool if it was a surprize or something haha...

Okay, I'll edit it as soon as I have some time on my hands. Right now I have an assignment to do for university

 

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EDITED!

Does anyone have any input? links or comments?

 

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added more links....

 

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added encryption category

 

[g0dM@n]

Good start...

 

[v8440]

I'm wondering about that 15k seagate drive that has a 2.something ms seek time. Is it SCSI, or do they make it in a sata version? What capacities are available, and how much do they cost? I can see putting 2 or 4 of these in raid 0...

 

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Good start...

Thanks! I'll ad to the list over the weekend...

I'm wondering about that 15k seagate drive that has a 2.something ms seek time. Is it SCSI, or do they make it in a sata version? What capacities are available, and how much do they cost? I can see putting 2 or 4 of these in raid 0...

It is SAS - serial attached SCSI

You need a SAS controller card. Good thing is that the SAS controller card can take normal SATA drives too

 

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Added more links. Will add more soon...

 

[Ethre]

The video link in the "blow torch on drive" page is dead - but I think this

is the same clip.

I like the motorcycle there . .

 

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The video link in the "blow torch on drive" page is dead - but I think this

is the same clip.

I like the motorcycle there . .

Thank you

updated it