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Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
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Andy
May 10, 2008, 12:22:17 AM5/10/08
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However, at the core of the drive, the spinning metal platters that
actually store data were not warped. They had been gouged and pitted,
but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full, and the damage happened
where data had not yet been written.
However, at the core of the drive, the spinning metal platters that
actually store data were not warped. They had been gouged and pitted,
but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full, and the damage happened
where data had not yet been written.
Edwards attributes that to a lucky twist: The computer was running an
ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over
drives as other approaches do.
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