When I save something to my hard drive does it physically get heavier?
Writing to a disk makes it lighter
>>55267563
No
ones making it heavier and zeroes making it lighter so there's always balance
No it physically get lighter because it scratches the data into the disk
>>55267563
yes
difference between a 1tb file in 4tb drive is atleast a gram
No, the entropy of one non-random state is the same as any other non-random state
Only really with ssd's, and even then not by much. Electrons hardly have any mass.
>>55267563
If you take a flash drive and change it from an all-0s state to an all-1s state (or a mixture of the two), it will gain a tiny amount of weight due to the electrons trapped inside the gates.
If you multiply that by the number of 1s you'd need to store the entire internet, it's about 50 grams of electrons.
>>55267794
>If you multiply that by the number of 1s you'd need to store the entire internet, it's about 50 grams of electrons.
Sorry, no, wrong number. That's the number of electrons in motion to power the servers that make up the internet.
The information itself is only about 1 millionth of a gram.
This is /g/,
- nobody has a clue about what he's talking about
- everybody's posting anyway
The Internet ways about the same as a single strawberry.
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