Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need

What this video covers

Tom7 (suckerpinch) builds and evaluates a series of absurd hard drives, including storage made from ping packets across the internet. The video accompanies his paper and mixes deep technical hacking with comedic storytelling.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN treats it as a favorite example of silly but educational computer science, recommended often when threads touch odd storage hacks.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“His Harder Drive paper was amazing”

“his style is amazing”

“everything on his channel is gold”