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A Lotta Platters
It seems that disk platters will spin for many years to come. This earlier 5.25" drive held 9GB total in all of its 14 platters. Today's drives would have 100 times the storage capacity in that amount of platter space. (Image courtesy of Singapore Technologies.)
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