Only true nerds would find a HDD a thing of beauty - mmmmmmmmm.
Before we burnt it in a bushfire (along with the house ! FFS) my father had a large - I recall about 2-3 foot diameter - hard disk from the Unit old computing centre - ferrous on a ceramic-like material as a coffee table - stainless steel legs - what hope did I have!
Damn Skippy!
2.5" drives are laptop drives and far far slower than standard 3.5" drives in order to make the batteries last longer.
They're not that bad nowadays. Performance is almost on par with 3,5" drives. The only HDDs faster than that are noisy expensive things that consume a lot of power
There's little reason not to have an SSD as your primary drive anyway. Using a HDD for your OS is the worst of both worlds. However, despite all their shortcomings HDDs are technological things of beauty. Or maybe thanks to them. They really needed to come up with a catalogue of tricks to make them as good as they are.
The development of modern hard drives is full of amazing engineering widgetry; the triumphs and epic fails describe a pattern of full-frontal nerdity similar to the development of military aircraft and ground assault vehicles. And whether you know it or not, every bit as world-transforming as the latter.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.htmlIn other news...
I tried to power through last night; stayed up til half-past "Oh fuck" in the morning, but passed out on the keyboard. When I woke up at 0h-three:mumblety-mumble in the morning, there were 2 hard drives left in the box and my face looked like a belgian waffle.
Strangely, at an hour past lunchtime today, I am in no rush whatsoever to get back to those last three drives. I'm just... numb.
mnem
I think I may have burned out my "Forensics" circuit.