Anyone know about Oil??

[Kameron]

Did I miss some massive step backwards in computer Technology? Since when did 7200rpm become High fucking Speed for hard drives?

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Since you read the marketing crap that companies spew. Like this:

Optimised for Digital Video, Pics&Music

Digital video from a USB external drive? Yeah great solution.

 

[audiotech]

Since you read the marketing crap that companies spew. Like this:

Digital video from a USB external drive? Yeah great solution.

I've got one of these:

Yamaha 01X mLAN Music Production Studio Features:
Compact digital control surface for DAW and synth software
Based on technology from Yamaha's fames 02R96 and 01V96
28-channel digital mixing
DAW remote control with motorized faders
24-bit/96 kHz multi-channel mLAN I/O
Powerful DSP processing
Low latency Macintosh and Windows drivers

Apparently you can use it 'straight out of the box' (didn't say that you had to have a masters in music technology tho).

All through one firewire cable connected to a computer.

You can use it as a doorstop too.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Ooooh, i only understood half the words and technical terms used there, i want it!

 

[Hocus Eye.]

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Originally Posted by Hocus Eye.
Surely the hard-drive needs to be surrounded with air. I understood that the read-write heads float just above the surface of the disc on the air that is generated by the spinning of the disc.

Trust me, it doesn't

My reply

You may say that but;-

from The PC Guide "Modern drive heads float over the surface of the disk and do all of their work without ever physically touching the platters they are magnetizing. The amount of space between the heads and the platters is called the floating height or flying height. It is also sometimes called the head gap, and some hard disk manufacturers refer to the heads as riding on an "air bearing". The read/write head assemblies are spring-loaded--using the spring steel of the head arms--which causes the sliders to press against the platters when the disk is stationary. (This is done to ensure that the heads don't drift away from the platters; maintaining an exact floating height is essential for correct operation.) When the disk spins up to operating speed, the high speed causes air to flow under the sliders and lift them off the surface of the disk--the same principle of lift that operates on aircraft wings and enables them to fly."

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/heads/opHeight.html

Hocus

 

[nadia]

Silicon Oil if you really are going to do it. Non-flammable, transparent very very stable. We using it as the compressive in Bi & Tri axial compression rigs because it has very very small compressibility even compared to water which becomes important when you are simulating pressures at 7 km down in the Earth\'s crust.

However it does go everywhere, the floors of our labs were perpetually covered in it.


We use some stuff called dialla in deep sea electrical equipment for cooling etc. There are plenty of specialist transformer oils out there. The other issue is if you are working at high pressure you risk everything someing back as margarine is you use the wrong oil e.g olive oil

 

[tom k&e]

Silicon Oil if you really are going to do it. Non-flammable, transparent very very stable. We using it as the compressive in Bi & Tri axial compression rigs because it has very very small compressibility even compared to water which becomes important when you are simulating pressures at 7 km down in the Earth\'s crust.

However it does go everywhere, the floors of our labs were perpetually covered in it.


We use some stuff called dialla in deep sea electrical equipment for cooling etc. There are plenty of specialist transformer oils out there. The other issue is if you are working at high pressure you risk everything someing back as margarine is you use the wrong oil e.g olive oil

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