Re: Hard drives on 'Deep Space' missons: any idea why they are never used?

Max Power <mikehack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hard drives on 'Deep Space' missions: any idea why they are never used?

I've no direct knowledge, but would think that the heating/cooling
cycles a deep space probe might encounter would be rather difficult on
a disc drive. It is a rather delicate component - certainly compared
with say magtape and definitely so compared to core :) I would hazzard
a guess that a disc drive requires environmental conditions not too
far from those desired/required by humans.

rick jones
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