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I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time.

Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.

Worked on that phone. I diagnosed if music player cache was working by putting back of phone to my ear and listening for seeking clicks from hdd

Nice! I loved that phone, was one of my favourites. One of the only, if not the only phone I ever owned that had a metal shell that I an recall.

I had most of the N range, and was particularly interested in music ones, N95 was love/hate because the music button/reverse slide was so slow sometimes, and generally it just wasn't as good as N91 for music listening with its proper headphone jack placement, and always accessible controls.

What kind of magic did that HDD have that it could be thrown around like a phone typically is without the issues we would see if we'd handled a laptop with HDD the same way?

Had an accelerometer that turned off hard drive when motion detected. High end ibm thinkpads had that too. Turns out if seek head is parked properly, its fairly robust

N91 also had a ridiculously high quality DAC that beat pants off iPods of that gen.

I think I remember reading something about that at the time, the accelerometer thing, maybe it was in the manual.

Sounds quality was great and I loved the dock too.

yeah all phones were supposed to survive 2m drop test on concrete and still be able to make a call

First time hearing about this. I just looked up that drive. That's genuinely amazing, and kind of adorable.

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