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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by frame_perfect on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:52PM (#10746331)
2) It's probably not a disk. I'd bet it's an SSD, or something. I doubt he'd use an HDD considering how relatively cheap it is now... and considering how loaded he probably is.
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by czechdeveloper on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:55PM (#10746350)
SSD can also stand for Solid State Disk. Disk does not imply moving parts.
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by frame_perfect on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:40AM (#10750287)
No. It's only referred to that because people are stupid. It contains neither an actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk.

If SSD = Solid state disk, then HDD = Hard disk disk.

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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by 1stop on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:38PM (#10747135)
But it does imply a disc, as in a circular thing. SSDs are very square looking discs...
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by mtanski on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @07:17PM (#10748519)
It's kind of like apps still using the floppy drive icon to indicting Save action.
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by mtanski on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:54PM (#10746339)
SSD = solid state DISK
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by frame_perfect on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:41AM (#10750288)
Actually no. It's only referred to that because people are stupid. It contains neither an actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk.

HDD = HARD DISK drive

SSD = SOLID STATE drive

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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by samstave on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:10PM (#10746929)
I thought it was drive, not disk.
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