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Cosmic Ray Particles Crashed Through The Hard Disk Platte
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Cosmic ray particles crashed through the hard disk platter
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A hard disk is good to find.
Happiness is a hard disk.
Hard Disk error! Disk is soft... Harden it, then try...
cosmic rays n. Notionally, the cause of bit rot.
However, this is a semi-independent usage that may be invoked as a humorous way to handwave away any minor randomness that doesn't seem worth the bother of investigating....
farming: [Adelaide University, Australia] n. What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media.
Associated with a {crash}. Typically used as follow...
crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
A hard disk is a terrible thing to waste.
HELP! My hard drive crashed and I can't boot up.