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our day one coverage of computex 2013 in our home base in the WD Booth don't
forget we are giving away a ton of cool stuff courtesy of Western Digital after
the show the more you watch our WD coverage of the show The more prizes
we're going to be giving away everything from hard drives to full gaming system
all that kind of cool stuff check out the link to the Forum under in the video
description to get all of the details now behind me you're going to see the
main attraction here in the WD Booth this is a 14t 250 lb racing car made out
of what is essentially a high density foam that is
molded into the shape of actual hard drive components with a steel frame it
has a racing seat inside so you can actually sit in it and get your picture
taken as part of the Booth's attraction and we are going to be getting a sneak
peek of the reveal that's actually going to happen in a little while but you'll
see it first online as Tech tips this is it this is the big reveal I have my
lovely assistants from WD revealing this car go ahead guys which is actually made
so they took CAD drawings of components of hard drive some of the highest
performance hard drives that you could possibly feasibly imagine with
technology today and they blew it up huge scale so some of the things are
blown up more or less than others this right here is a hard drive platter is
actually not that much bigger than what you'd find in a 3 and 1 half in Drive
however this guy here is significantly larger than what you'd see in real life
this is a dual stage actuator assembly here that is what actually reads and
writes the data off of The Platters and the cool thing about this is while it
looks pretty big here and you could probably fit that platter I showed you
before in between the actual distance between these and the platters in real
life is 100 angstrom so to put that in perspective Ive a human hair is a
million angstroms a bacteria is 5,000 angstroms and a virus is about 100
angstrom so these things are flying many many miles an hour over the top of the
platter and there the tolerances are uh are not very big so we're going to make
our way towards the back of the car these are the coils that actually drive
the head assembly over the platters themselves they have to be extremely
precise in order to read any data off of it and at all we've got more dual stage
actuators more coils all of this is made of a high density foam with a steel
skeleton so the whole thing actually only weighs 250 lbs making it very
portable but it's solid enough that you can actually sit in the thing now the
amount of the craftsmanship that went into this this is handbuilt so if you
were to get really really close you'd be able to see every sandpaper mark on the
thing because they spent countless hours building this thing to show show off
their technology so down here we've actually got a PCB Trace that's been
blown up to car size as well as a pivot
bearing right here so these high technology bearings actually have to be
smooth enough and precise enough for that well that those those tiny tiny
data tolerances now we're going to sort of cheat and we're going to be the first
ones to sit in the car here I'm just going to lift up the side door we're
going to go ahead and see if I can maneuver this thing so while it is
durable enough to sit in I also wouldn't recommend jumping right into it because
it is made of uh of foam it doesn't have quite the same structural strength as a
as an actual Western Digital hard drive here we
go and of course uh I can't promise that
any hard drive you buy will make you this cool but if there's even a chance I
think I'll go for it guys stay tuned don't miss any of our computex coverage
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