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Section on manufacture?

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Should there be a section on the manufacturing process of hard drives? I noticed there's a section on the manufacture of the platters in the Hard disk drive platter article, but I feel like this section is a bit technical at a first glance and I imagine that it would be more beneficial for the average curious reader (such as myself) to have a simpler and more accessible overview of the manufacturing process.

I'm pretty new to editing Wikipedia, so I'd appreciate some advice! /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 15:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Manufacture section in this article to discuss the non-platter manufacturing process sounds like a good improvement. It might also be helpful to make a similar improvement to Disk read-and-write head. What specific advice are you looking for? ~Kvng (talk) 19:52, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, at the time I was just looking for advice / general pointers for expanding an article with new information rather than just fixing up existing information. I think I have a better grip on this now that I'm a couple hundred edits in, but if you still have any advice feel free to send it my way! /home/gracen/ (they/them) 21:08, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More citations needed in integrity section

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It seems to me that the "Integrity and failure" section is very poorly sourced. For instance, the first 4 paragraphs, while constituting a significant portion of the body text, only have four citations. I don't really have much to say at the moment as I haven't properly researched the topic to add more sources yet, but I felt it was valuable to have a place for collaboration (it's very frustrating to see a generic maintenance template without any additional information). /home/gracen/ (they/them) 16:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is DASD an inequivalent term to HDD

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The note in the LEDE provided a list of inequivalent terms to "hard disk drive", but for all practical purposes all of the listed terms are applied today to HDDs so using "inequivalent" is IMO misleading and not supported in the body of the article. The reason for using "inequivalent" is some IBM DASD some time ago used flexible magnetic media but even this is explained in the second sentence of the note, so I suggest "inequivalent" is inappropriate in the LEDE and have rephrased the first sentence to make it clear that these terms apply to HDDs. BTW, the sentence does not say these terms only apply to HDDs so it is correct on its face. Tom94022 (talk) 21:35, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just old hardware. A solid-state drive (SSD) is a DASD but not a disk. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:01, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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