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Post #2772755
2025-10-26 04:07 UTC
@TracyTThomas@mastodon.beer
With great caution and a high failure rate, I'm sure.
Everybody migrated to the modern disk-sealed-in-drive style pretty much as soon as it became commercially feasible. Removable hard disks were pretty much extinct by the 1990s.
SyQuest and Iomega did make a few more removable HDDs in the 1990s and 2000s, but they were unreliable and generally flopped in the market.
Removable HDDs only truly succeeded when the entire drive was made removable (i.e. USB HDDs).
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@TracyTThomas@mastodon.beer 2025-10-26 16:18
@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @altomare@oldbytes.space I was thinking maybe really good error correction was key. But I wonder if that would have worked if the error was something physically blocking the head movement.