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Hard Drives

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Seagate's CEO publically states what hard drives are for:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/30/magazin ... /index.htm

"I help people watch pr0n."
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A brief video highlight of how harddrives work:

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-a-Hard-disk-works
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Yelling at hard drives slows down their I/O operations and increases latency:

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... 2&Itemid=1
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