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Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need

suckerpinch202K subscribers

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Why it's on BrighterTube

Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via Reddit r/compsci thread: Any recommendations of youtube channels for programming and computer science stuff? · 86% confidence

Teaches how a filesystem sees a block device and what storage really requires, through inventive experiments.

What you'll learn

Builds "hard drives" out of absurd storage media (ping, Tetris, a CAPTCHA), explaining storage abstractions and block devices.

Programming & CSEngineering

Video by suckerpinch, played through YouTube's embedded player.