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Mini-Stories: Volume 15

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What Is a Hard Drive?

Engineers were trying to figure out how this particular song was crashing all these different computers. And they narrowed it down to the hard drive, so all the laptops use the same model of hard drive. So the hard drive has all these resonant frequencies that are actually musical notes. If you played one loud enough, you could actually knock the hard drive physically out of whack.

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