Originally Posted by konsta I'm relatively certain that we've been using rotating glass disks to store our data for quite a long time now...
u sure? last HD i took apart i was able to bend the platter double before it broke
Glass-ceramic platters have been around for a long time, but you'll still find aluminium ones in older smaller-capacity drives; the glass ones can be made thinner to squeeze more surfaces into the available height.
The question was the hard disks. I wanted no moving parts then it struck me: Use CF! Two 4GB CF cards in RAID1 would give some redundancy and increase CF's read speed which was never very good and a Highpoint 370A card wouldn't use much juice.
With Win2k booting and Windows Update running, I installed the old (and now no longer available) Everest Home Edition to check sensor values. CPU at 56C, system at 43C. Then I realised I hadn't connected my 120mm fan with the distraction caused by the PSU. The box, CD drive now removed, had no moving parts whatsoever!
It's eerie. It's not like a computer. You push the power button and there's no "mmm-zip!" of the HDs firing up. There's no background hum. Not even any faint vibrations. Audibly, you cannot tell if the system is on or off at any distance. I've done quiet. I've done "nearly silent" but there's always been the tell-tale signs of the hum of a hard disk or its click as it seeks. This box has none of that. If it wasn't for the lights on the front, you wouldn't know it was on.
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