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I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time. Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.
Maybe you wanted to see the assembly code, and that's fine. But he took a potentially difficult problem, found tools to solve it and documented (to some degree) the process?
I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time. Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.
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Tempting. I wonder what material they used for the platter. I once took apart a 1.8" drive, and got a big surprise when the platter suddenly shattered. I was expecting aluminum, not glass/ceramic substrate.
Yes, glass was the typical substrate used in small HDDs, even in many of the 2.5" HDDs, e.g. in all the 2.5" HDDs that I had. It is easier to ensure that glass substrates are perfectly plane and without any surface defects than for substrates made of aluminum alloy. In 3.5" disks the risk of shattering becomes too great, so aluminum alloy is preferred.
Lost me at the first OpenClaw mention.
Why? It seems foolish to have a knee jerk reaction to someone using a tool that got them where they needed to be.
It's a bit like watching a 2 hour movie about a knight who'd been preparing to save his beloved princess from a dragon for 1h 59s, and then the screen fades to black, the narrator proclaims that the dragon is done, the knight marries the princess and they live happily ever after. Closing credits!
I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time. Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.
Worked on that phone. I diagnosed if music player cache was working by putting back of phone to my ear and listening for seeking clicks from hdd
I had most of the N range, and was particularly interested in music ones, N95 was love/hate because the music button/reverse slide was so slow sometimes, and generally it just wasn't as good as N91 for music listening with its proper headphone jack placement, and always accessible controls.
What kind of magic did that HDD have that it could be thrown around like a phone typically is without the issues we would see if we'd handled a laptop with HDD the same way?
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Worked on that phone. I diagnosed if music player cache was working by putting back of phone to my ear and listening for seeking clicks from hdd
Nice! I loved that phone, was one of my favourites. One of the only, if not the only phone I ever owned that had a metal shell that I an recall. I had most of the N range, and was particularly interested in music ones, N95 was love/hate because the music button/reverse slide was so slow sometimes, and generally it just wasn't as good as N91 for music listening with its proper headphone jack placement, and always acce…
N91 also had a ridiculously high quality DAC that beat pants off iPods of that gen.
[0] I'm 99.9% sure it's not SSD/SRAM/Flash because I'm 99.9% sure it predates cheap [those] by years. But I'll have to dig it out and get the full USB/HDD info later to check.
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Damn, now I want one just to de-lid one and put it on a shelf. Looks like eBay has plenty of these.
One of my most delightful discoveries of the early 2000s was that iPod Minis used Microdrives that were pin-compatible with CompactFlash cards. I had a little cottage industry in the back of my office upgrading my coworkers’ old iPods to use bigger, solid state disks. I still have my 256GB iPod Mini. Aside from battery life, it still runs fine, and it is by far my favorite music player form factor.
I really liked the old original iPod Nano myself. Had one for years that I was triple-booting RockBox (for extended media formats support and fancier interface), iPodLinux (for playing Doom and other toys), and the original iPod OS (just in case). Still haven't yet owned another device in that size / form factor that can do as much as that little thing did. Apple really did make some sweet devices back in the day... :)