What happens if you cover the hole?

Or you could just not be a literal child that does things because you were explicitly told not to do them

>filter
Looks like I was wrong when I said it was a diaphragm the other day. Whoops.

I just want to know

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Are you blind? It was already answered.

it gets sad :(

>what is the purpose of
vs
>what happens

Nice reading comprehension you radiator

Aw. I wanted to see them keep flipping out for a while.
Oh, ok nevermind, it's a headline only reading retard.

Can you fucking read? It says right there on the site
>If the air pressure is too low, then there is not enough lift for the flying head, so the head gets too close to the disk, and there is a risk of head crashes and data loss.
How retarded are you faggot?

Fucking spoonfeeder.

>there is a risk of
So you're telling me you have no idea what happens

Don't listen to these lies OP. That hole is to prevent mustard gas build up. If you cover it up, the pressure will build and your hard drive will explode like a mustard gas grenade!

You get aids

PEE IN IT

NOW

Hard drives have to breathe. Just like humans. Why would you try and choke your hard drive? What did it ever do to you besides faithfully serving up data when you needed it?
Don't be so mean to your hard drive.

>So you're telling me you have no idea what happens
That's not what that sentence means you fucking retard. It just means that it isn't guaranteed to happen but there is a risk of it due to the hole being covered.

it would be very painful.

it starts to stutter for air

Inside the hard disk are millions of microscopic data mites that memorize the things you store on the drive. They run rapidly around the platters causing them to spin. Each mite can remember about 4 KB of information. These mites have to breathe, and the air hole lets them. Cover the hole and the mites will begin to die, which shows up as bad sectors.
Don't worry, they put a screen across the hole to prevent the mites from escaping.

But essentially it never happens, right?

I mean I have plenty drives that have no holes on them so what's up with that

>What happens if you cover the hole?
You're not supposed to do that.

nigga don't do it thats 5 to 10

This might happen:
youtube.com/watch?v=rqfSqUuo7Ms

GOT YOUR BACK, HOLE

Gottem

What if I pump all the air out and fill it to atmospheric pressure with nitrogen? Will my hdd last forever then?

It's a speed hole, makes the drive go faster

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Not the same user, but how retarded are you? Just because, for instance, one CPU model has overheating problems doesn't mean every single other CPU also has overheating problems. In the same respect, not all Hard Drives are mechanical replicas of each other. If it "essentially never happened" they wouldn't need to include the warning in the first place.

90% of tech thread questions in archives online right there.

>how can I do ___?
>"don't do ____! do ____ _____ instead!"
>but that's not...
>"why do you want to do ____? just do ___ __ ______."
>but...
>"that's not needed"

Holy shit the amount of ad inserts lmao

Newfag detected.

So I'll cover it with my mouth.

It's a big drive..

It would be extremely painful

For u

This thread is a perfect example of why I still come to this God forsaken website

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Based user for giving me an entertaining thread.

It would be very painful.

It is for crashing your hdd with no survivors

I'd love to have you as a CS teacher.

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Not right now it don't

What a sad looking animay

> there is a risk
> But essentially it never happens, right?
Did you work at Enron or what? They had a similar idea of what a "risk" is.

Glad to see this still referenced.

Install Gentoo

Please don't cover the hole the NSA spies from there

Your mother dies in her sleep the night after.

It will die

They just want to cover their asses, in reality it's perfectly safe to cover the hole unless you're in an airplane

the fbi shows up and asks you to uncover their microphone.

It would be extremely painful.