I find hard drives fascinating: the way they store data on a magnetic platter, how the voice coil actuator moves the read/write head across the platter while a spindle motor keeps the platter spinning ...

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It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...