11 Jul
1998
11 Jul
'98
6:52 a.m.
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
**** snip ****
Why can't they make a hard drive that's crash
proof? Even if the
mechanics fail, can't some hardend substance like glass be layed over the
platter so if the head did crash it would only scratch the glass? Then
you would simply open the drive, pull out the platter, replace the glass
shield if necessary, then insert it into a working assembly. The head
calibration would be adjusted to compensate for the extra distance to the
platter.
You forget that what permits the high areal density on current drives is
the fact that the heads are able to fly so close to the magnetic media
surface. What you propose would probably make your 1.2gb drive into
about a 1.2kb drive!
- don