The inside of a hard drive

I’ve always wanted to see what a hard drive looks like while it is working. I recently took one apart (an old 400MB “Big Foot”), attached it to my test box. It worked suprisingly easily. Here is the video:

 

One Response to “The inside of a hard drive”

  1. 8:08 pm on October 20 2006, skippy said:

    Very cool! I never realized just how fast the arm moves.

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