6GB was left on the knife
storage
Submitted 9 months ago by awesome_person@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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Killerqu00@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
over_clox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sooo…
Are you gonna eat that slice of cake?
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yum the corners are my favorite!
Lightning66@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It might not be exactly 250gb.
It could be lesser. And I won’t settle for that…
fritter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hard drive capacity marketers have entered the chat
Wage_Slave@kbin.social 9 months ago
Oddly satisfying. I kinda want a piece for my desk.
Intralexical@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No!
XEAL@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Nahh, that chunk is about 1/6 of the HDD.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Ackshually the corner is centered right on the spindle in the middle of the platters.
original_ish_name@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Akshually, you would need to cut the disk inside
Also, how old is this hard drive for it to be so big?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
Those layers ARE the disks.
Also that’s a 3.5" hard drive. They’re still current. It’s the standard form factor for desktop use. Though most home systems nowadays just use SSDs.
Still though these are used for large, slower storage like backups, media, etc. and used in enterprise.
SomeBoyo@feddit.de 9 months ago
That’s a standard 3.5 inch harddrive. They still exist and are still sold.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a 1TB 3.5" HDD. They still make those today.
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
Looks like a 5400rpm 1TB WD caviar green. But it’s a standard size for desktops. Laptop hard drives are the same size as a SATA SSD. And the m.2 drives are the size of a large gumstick.
But, the WD greens weren’t great drives, so nothing of value was lost - I have 6 of them in my house, and about 4 of them are dead or dying.
My dad bought them for a Intel RST RAID array when he built his hackintosh, all the way when the Intel Core i7-860 was new, and snow leopard was the current Mac OS. The array died a tragic, and very preventable death. (He never bothered to replace the first drive that died, and the second drive death completely killed it)
over_clox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Water jet cutting exists yo.
Not saying for sure whether that’s how it was actually done or not, just saying.
original_ish_name@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No, I mean that the disk inside is the thing holding the storage so if you cut it into 1/4 you woild get 1/4 the storage
Intralexical@lemmy.world 9 months ago
…I really wish I had a magnetic microscope.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ahh fuck, you ruined it. You see how shitty that cut is? You need to use a water jet so you don’t get all those jaggies.
packetloss@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is this how you partition a hard drive?
eating3645@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Technically correct?