20 Oct
2006
20 Oct
'06
6:19 p.m.
--- Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
um
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
errr.. no. I work for a water company and am
a lab technician. Among other things we test
the water to make sure it's safe to drink.
Ahh, thanks. I had forgotten about Google
(not surprising since I have been working
8.5 hour days for the past week and only
getting 6 hours sleep each night).
Sounds a lot like my schedule. Are you also a
sysadmin? :-) I don't
like to rely too heavily on Wikipedia
as (like alot of information online) you can't
be sure what's right or wrong, unless someone
knowledgeable in the subject can confirm it.
For things that I'm familiar with Wikipedia is
almost always correct.
For things that I'm not familiar with, their
external links point to
data that agrees with it.
So if I understand correctly, the outer casing
of a harddrive acts as a Faraday cage? My
(4GB) Toshiba ones I use in my Amiga 600
have circuitry on the underside, but I suspect
that may stop it being a Faraday cage, unless
it's stuck onto the outside of the unit.
The platters are very well protected by the metal
case. There are holes
for air, (hard drives don't like working in a vacu or low air
pressure) and of course holes for the control/data
cables, so it's not a
perfect Faraday cage, but it's close enough.
They must be really small air holes (or well
hidden) as I never saw any when installing
the HD's
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk