Mommy, where do hard drives come from?

If you haven’t seen this video, check it out.  If you have ever wondered what goes into manufacturing hard drives, or even if you haven’t, it’s a pretty cool watch.

Pretty eye opening numbers from the video:

• A drive’s recording head hovers above the disks at a height of 100 atoms, 100 times thinner than a piece of paper
• Seagate clean rooms are 100 times cleaner than a hospital operating room
• Seagate can analyze over 1.5 Million drives at a time
• Seagate builds 6 hard drives, hybrid drives, and solid state drives every second
• Every single drive travels through over 1000 manufacturing steps