And when you actually wanna store information on disk, can you actually use, as we'll see in a moment, magnetic particles.

当你想在硬盘中存储信息时，我们将会用到后面，我们会谈论的一种称之为磁性粒子来实现它。

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When you're working on a file, it's saving constantly to RAM but also hopefully to disc, the hard disk so you don't actually lose it if the power goes off.

当你打开一个文件，它不断地保存在内存中,但对于光盘，硬盘,当你断开电源的时候，数据不会丢失。

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A patterned series of these tiny charged berries on the disk represents a single bit of data in the binary number system used by computers.

这些在磁盘上的有序的小粒子,代表这个当代计算机中,二进制中单独的一位。

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The bits are still there, much like bits are still left when you erase a file on your hard disk but they're forgotten about.

二进制数还在那里，就像你在硬盘上删除一个文件,二进制还在那里,但是它们被遗忘了。

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