Working hard drive innards recorded at 1000fps, a thing of beauty

[Pan Wah]

Stop beating up the guest!
Electrons in an electric field flowing along a copper wire can move incredibly slowly. Please see here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity
In this example the electrons move about 1m an hour - I can certianly walk that fast.

Did no-one read Doctor John's post above - I'm sure he's right, and what he said covers ALL these scenarii, so we can all stop arguing!

 

[Guest]

Make no mistake, electrons in a conductor move fast, about 0.5% the speed of light. What they don't do is consistently and coherently move in the same direction very quickly. They bounce around and scatter so much that their net motion is very small, around the 1 meter per hour figure quote above.

 

[Pan Wah]

Make no mistake, electrons in a conductor move fast, about 0.5% the speed of light. What they don't do is consistently and coherently move in the same direction very quickly. They bounce around and scatter so much that their net motion is very small, around the 1 meter per hour figure quote above.

Absolutely, so the average velocity of a bunch of electrons can approach zero, but the individuals are zooming and bouncing off each other & atoms in the conductor (which is why cables get warm!). Nice one, Guest (y)

 

[valentyn0]

Yet my Samsung F3 only lasted 11 months

Probably a defective one, have a samsung myself (hdtune reports 1100 days in function, that means somwhere around 3 years and smth always ON) and still this model was a Spinpoint.

 

[Guest]

Old video...sigh

 

[LinkedKube]

My god, why did we start allowing guest comments. Waste of my time.

 

[Zoltan Head]

Old video...sigh

That's what you get for opening old threads...(sigh)