Quick Quesition

[Bubbs]

Does an empty hard drive weight the same as a full hard drive?

Does data weigh anything?

Discuss
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[t121anf]

Stole this

[carlosthejack...]

And we need to understand that "mass" and "weight" aren't the same thing.
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[Ariel Badger]

Does a 1 weigh less than a 0? If we think of it as cards either face up or face down we see they weigh the same but can still be used for binary calculations.
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[oldpink]

its only a change in the magnetic property's of the disk
nothing is added or removed so mass or weight will be the same
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[Frost]

My hard drive is full of 0's and 1's as it has data on it. If I emptied the drive, i.e formatted it all those 1's and 0's would remain there, but the File Allocation Table (FAT) would just forget where everything is.
So the difference between a full and empty drive might be almost no magnetic difference at all. Like asking if a book weighs less just because you've forgotten how to read.

A drive of 0's vs a drive of 1's is the most extreme case you can compare and would never occur. Event then the mass would be indistinguishable in difference. Weight on the other hand might be effected by the interaction between the magnetic field of the drive and the local area. This would probably be unmeasurable small unless the magnetic field it was in was very strong..

[Ariel Badger]

[carlosthejack...]

Is a hard drive actually filled with 0's and 1's, or does it comprise of bits that are either on, or off?
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[hellkat]

But a ton of 0's would weigh less than a ton of 1's.

They are, after all, of no value ... whereas 1's, by virtue of their numerical loading, are going to be heavier


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[J.M.]

Flash memory does, I'm not so sure about magnetic hard drives though.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055367/E-books-heavier-dowload-titles.html
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[Ariel Badger]

Not true, it is in the Daily Mail.
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[Skudd]

My tummy is full.
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[Tenko]

As I understand it the difference between a '0' and a '1' is in the position of sub-atomic particles as opposed to their number, so in that respect the weight will be the same.