Quite an arm you have there

Ars Technica has a journal entry up with a link to a Google video of a hard drive in operation. It’s pretty neat if you have never seen it before. It’s amazing the speed when you think about how accurate it has to be. Keep in mind that that doesn’t look like the newest and fastest hard drive either, so current models should be even faster. The idea of being able to see the drive in operation has led people to put windows on their drives, and now Western Digital is even selling a drive with a window built in. I always wanted to shoot one with a pellet gun while the platters were spun up.