Me neither, but I remember the large Wincester disks of the IBM System/36 at my old workplace. They were quite hot, but less than 120C I would say.eslapion wrote:Twice 300K would be 600K, that's 327 Celcius...groepaz wrote:... and they run at typically twice that temperature.... oh well
I don't know of any hard drive that runs at the temperature of a soldering iron...
Another thing to consider is the development of tapes media at the end of the 80'ies. Not that it affects the discussion here, but improved magnetic coatings made it possible to get higher density as a thinner coating also meant that magnetic domains could be smaller. I think I actually had a recorder that could run at half speed at some point (for audio tapes). But for a thinner coating to work, the tape head also had to be made accordingly (as for the disk drives). This technology was later used for improving hard drive storage density.
Sorry, just one of my digressions.