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Does this mean that they have some sort of actuator that can move with nanometer precision? I didn’t realize that was possible… wow.


The best part is that you may already have one.

Modern hard disks have a track pitch in tens of nanometers, and the read head has to move with matching precision, it also flies 3 nanometers above the surface.


Wow, that's really cool. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. I didn't realize how physically precise modern hard drives were! I suppose if it makes sense if you think about how much information they are storing in a small space.




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