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Has anybody ever mounted or attached a camera to the arm of a hard disk drive?
What I mean, is literately mounting or attaching it to the disk's read/write arm (similar to those that did it to a record player), would the camera even stay on or get thrown off due to the sheer speed of the back and forth (left and right) movements when data is being seeked for? If anybody has ever done it, or thought of it, can you do a video of it? Google, yahoo, bing, aol, etc. wasn't very helpful either.
3 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
it's not possible, since the read head is so close to the disk any extra weight on it would simply cause the read head to scratch the platter of the HDD and the drive would be useless.
the speed that the read head seeks at would cause anything but the smallest micro/spy camera to just get thrown off (might work with super glue, but you would damage the read head and platter due to the vapours of the glue), you wouldn't even have a good view/image of anything with such a tiny camera anyway.
- DavidLv 78 years ago
Not possible, for the home user, the read write heads move in milliseconds, the inertia involved would probably destroy the setup. You won't find anything on google etc. either as no-one would want to do a crazy idea
HTH
David
