thinking about that time when I put a viewing window into an iPod hard drive, and the whole thing still fucking works
@retr0id Did you do something special to avoid getting dust inside?
@robryk Not really, and I *did* get some amount of dust inside, because there are some bad sectors - but I was able to format around them, so it's fully functional again.
@robryk I hope/theorise that any dust big enough to potentially cause a problem with the head would fly off with centrifugal force the moment it spins up, but who knows. The fact that it's a (relatively) low density drive helps too (30GB iirc)
@retr0id What mechanism would you theorise caused the dust to damage the platters?
@robryk No clue really, but maybe microscopic scratches on the surface?
@retr0id Have you worked out whether damaged sectors are laid along some kinds of paths on the surfaces of the platters? (Or are there too few of them for that to be meaningful?)
