Feb 07 2006
Watch A Hard Drive Work
This cool video of a hard drive in action shows how its arm seeks across its platters. I’m surprised hard drives last as long as they do.
Archive for the tag 'computers'
Jan 09 2006
Cooling A Computer With Oil
Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil:
Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore the realms of the non-conventional.
They recommend motor oil, although they used vegetable oil. [...]
Sep 10 2004
Build Your Own PC
Build the Most PC for Your Money:
A lot of you have expressed interest in finding out what we think is the best value for your dollars. What CPUs, hard drives, video cards, and other components will get you perilously close to the extreme high end, without making you spend extreme dollars? That’s sums up today’s [...]
