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> HDDs are pretty much magical. It's insane how delicate, yet robust it all is.

Absolutely. It's bloody amazing how my laptop has a device with finger-sized actuators that read/write bit cells that are about as small as couple-year-old semiconductor feature sizes -- and that can survive mistreatment that one doesn't usually associate with micromanipulators.



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