Hard Disk Drive

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of the I Can't Sleep Podcast, fall asleep learning about Hard Disk Drives. I'm not going to try and come up with something interesting for this one because it was a bore to read. Happy sleeping! Ad-Free Episodes Want an ad-free experience? Follow this link to support the podcast and get episodes with no ads: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ ProLon Go to ProlonLife.com/ICANTSLEEP for 10% off the 5-day nutrition program. Jupiter CBD Oil Save 20% off your first purchase by entering GETSLEEP upon checkout, or click here: https://www.getjupiter.com/share/icantsleep SleepPhones Follow this affiliate link to purchase headphones you can fall asleep with: https://www.sleepphones.com/?aff=793 then enter the code ICANTSLEEP10 at checkout to receive a discount. This content is derived from the Wikipedia article Hard Disk Drive, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. The article can be accessed at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a glass box media podcast.
0:07.0	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast where I read random articles from across the web to
0:16.4	bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. I'm your host Benjamin Foster.
0:21.2	Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled Hard Disc Drive.
0:28.6	A Hard Disc Drive, H.D.D.
0:31.9	Hard Disc. Hard Drive, or Fixed Disk, is an electromechanical data storage device that stores
0:39.3	and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with
0:47.1	magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm,
0:57.0	which read and write data to the platter surfaces.
1:01.0	Data is accessed in a random access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored and retrieved in any order.
1:10.0	HDDs are a type of non-volatile storage, retaining stored data when powered off.
1:18.0	Modern HDDs are typically in the form of a small rectangular box.
1:24.0	Hard disk drives were introduced by IBM in 1956
1:29.0	and were the dominant secondary storage device
1:32.0	for general purpose computers beginning in the early
1:35.2	1960s.
1:37.6	Hard disk drives maintain this position into the modern era of servers and personal computers,
1:43.0	though personal computing devices produced in large volume
1:47.0	like mobile phones and tablets,
1:49.0	rely on flash memory storage devices.
1:52.0	More than 225 on flash memory storage devices.
1:54.0	More than 224 companies have produced HDDs historically, though after extensive
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