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Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
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What this video covers
Tom7 (suckerpinch) builds and evaluates a series of absurd hard drives, including storage made from ping packets across the internet. The video accompanies his paper and mixes deep technical hacking with comedic storytelling.
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HN treats it as a favorite example of silly but educational computer science, recommended often when threads touch odd storage hacks.
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