So on your computer's hard drive are again, a whole bunch of tiny magnetic particles aligned this way or this way.

因此，你的电脑硬盘是完全是,有一簇按照这种方式排列的磁性粒子。

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Even though a hard drive spins at 7200 times per minute or even faster, that's relatively slower than the speed of light.

即使一个硬盘驱动器的转速达到每分钟7200次,甚至更快，仍然比光速慢。

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But what's amazing is that the hard drives we have today in a desktop or in a laptop, a hard drive and a laptop is only about--yey big!

现在你可能对在笔记本或者,台式机中存在的硬盘更感兴趣，其实硬盘仅仅是容量大了一些！

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Good question, so what happens when you format a floppy disk or format a hard drive?

好问题，当你格式化一个软盘,或者硬盘时会发生什么呢？

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