Post #2772791
2025-10-26 16:30 UTC
@altomare@oldbytes.space
Intriguing: assuming the standard 7200 RPM 3.5 in disk most common for large internal hard drives, the edge should be a little slower than this -- about 37mph.
I wonder if the "flying height" has changed at all?
Can definitely see why these things are assembled and repaired in cleanrooms!
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@cliffordheath@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 22:48
@TerryHancock@realsocial.life They're not. RK05 is a drive with a 13" removable disk platter in a housing with a lid that opens. My first professional employment used two of these drives on a PDP11/34