Laser-based Hard Drive
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Laser-based Hard Drive
This is a hard drive that stores colors in an addressable memory. There are 31*3=93 disk sectors available for use. It stores the data in a rotating disk with fixed read and write lasers. Reading and writing is accomplished by having the laser wait for the desired sector to become available on disk and then reading or writing to that sector. Writes are faster than reads, as the read head cycles through sectors in a different pattern than the write head. Here's the scene:
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