In the old days it was very, very important to verify that a disk pack was undamaged, because unlike today's self-contained hard drives, the platters themselves were removed from the drive for shipping. A slightly bent platter would ruin a very, very expensive drive mechanism, and it would make the devil's own noise while it happened!
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Date: 2010-08-26 04:48 am (UTC)In the old days it was very, very important to verify that a disk pack was undamaged, because unlike today's self-contained hard drives, the platters themselves were removed from the drive for shipping. A slightly bent platter would ruin a very, very expensive drive mechanism, and it would make the devil's own noise while it happened!