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Comment by ryan-c

10 years ago

There are stories of really old hard drives being made to move around a room with abusive disk access patterns.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html

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digi_owl  10 years ago

"Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races."

Now that i would loved to be witness to.

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