Let's Learn Linux Together And Pass LPIC-1 Exam: Lesson 102.1

https://video.fosshq.org/w/bHn65vKcrHwzrBZPcbqcdC

Making a Variable Speed Disc Sander from an Old Hard Drive - This short video from [ProShorts 101] shows us how to build a variable speed disc ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/making-a-variable-speed-disc-sander-from-an-old-hard-drive/ #circularsander #harddiskdrive #discsander #toolhacks #hdd

Do you support the @internetarchive?

Get y'er $112 5TB drives before the tariffs fuck everything up!

#homelab #selfhosted #hdd #hdds

https://a.co/d/iNmUQrj

Storage winners and losers in Trump's #tariff-happy world

#US tariffs to heavily impact #HDD and #SSD, increasing costs
#Seagate, #Toshiba, and #WesternDigital have different supply chains, but subject to risks of substantial tariffs, particularly on drives produced in China (124%), Malaysia (24%), Philippines (17%), and Thailand (36%).

#NAND fabricated in Japan or Singapore but diced, tested, and packaged in China, the SSD origin is very likely to be considered China.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/04/07/storage-and-trump-tariffs/

SuperDuper! v3.10 B4 now available (well, it was available a few days ago for auto-update, but it took a while to write the blog post).

Blog announcing the release and some info about HDDs vs SSDs to accompany the update:

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comments/wgth_ssds_redux/

Power on hours: 143724
Reallocated sector count: zero
#Btrfs total checksum mismatches: zero
Btrfs total read/write errors: f**king zero

Slow though they may be, hard disk drives are amazing. #SSD s are cool and all, but how often do you find one that's old enough to drive a car and still functioning perfectly?

AI ruins everything yet again!

Western Digital Has Reportedly Bid Farewell To The SSD Market; SanDisk Will Now Be Responsible For Existing & Future Products

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-reportedly-bid-farewell-to-the-ssd-market/

Gandalf is currently shredding an old #HDD that no longer stores backups and has a ton of FERPA protected files. The command has been running for 10 min and it's only done 17Gb/1.9Tb on the first pass... there will be 4 passes. Is this going to take all weekend? Stay tuned.

Behold the true power of voice coil actuators!

That's a late-1990s hard disk drive head seeking around. Real-time; video is not sped up. That's how incredibly fast and precise they are.

https://youtu.be/YoavWJ1fQno?t=439&si=xUp2D30-AmHJsY_D

So I just bought a new 4TB #Seagate mechanical USB #HDD to backup both my laptops and upgrade to #Debian #trixie.

When I bought my first *new* hard drive in high-school (in the early-mid 90's), prices were about $1/MB which means my latest drive would have cost just over four trillion dollars after tax.

I always think I have a grasp of exponential progress in #computing until I compare my latest Amazon purchase to the 386 I started with.

If you've bought a new #Seagate #hdd , maybe you want to check if it's really a NEW one - or one that has spend a couple of years already in a server:

https://www.heise.de/news/Betrug-mit-Seagate-Festplatten-Dutzende-Leser-melden-Verdachtsfaelle-10258657.html

HDD SSD space should be counted in binary.

1KB in binary is 1024.

A 32 TB hard drive is in fact 30.517578125 TB unpartitioned /unformatted capacity, as the binary system on the computer actually uses it

I know about all those confusing terms that you can find when you go and search on different engines; those are just to confuse and convolute the fact that drives sold are under capacity

Counting storage in decimals is a crime, a marketing scheme which should have been outlawed globally.

I extracted some old #HDD platters a while back and now use them as a desk toy, and I find one thing striking: they stick together!

I think it's because they're so incredibly, microscopically flat and smooth. No air gap between them to separate them. One of them I bent while trying to extract it, and it doesn't stick like the others do.

So that's neat. Not as neat as magnetically recording about half a trillion bits each (omgwtf how is that possible), but still neat.

You know what's cooler than a machine that records 256 trillion bits on a piece of spinning metal?

A machine that records 256 trillion bits on a piece of spinning metal WITH A LASER.

I think that #CAMM is a bad design compared to #SODIMM & #DIMM...

• Like #Apple's bs of #SolderedDownRAM but just slightly less worse cuz now one could only in theory get a daughterboard and doesn't have to replace individual chips.

Still, just gimme regular-ass socketed Chips & #DIMMs ffs!

• Also we don't need to make the THINN-nest machines ffs - just make them #repairable and #serviceable and #upgradeable, because #AntiRepairDesign is way more unsustainable than the 0,1% of idiots who give a shit about whether their #DDR5-RAM can do 6400MT/s or 4800MT/s, simply because most users won't notice that at all (unlike switching from a 2,5" #SATA-#HDD running at 5400rpm to an #NVMe-#SSD that maxes out #PCIe 4x connections.

#FACT: #RAM & #SSD|s are inevitably dying due to age and use and like #ThermalPaste need to be #replaceable for a device to work longterm!

• So stop the #Enshittification of #tech FFS!

I'd rather have a #THICC af #laptop that actually survives my daily use than some flimsy #tablet that snaps in half if I sneeze at it.

• No seriously, most devices can't even fit proper ports and cooling fans for no good reason whatsoever!

Also I think it's insulting to frame basic things like "stability" as a negative.

• Guess what? People want to #GetShitDone and the folks that actually buy a #MobileWorkstation want to be able to rely on that equipment...

How many #GPUs and #HDD can I fit into the monster ?