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

Caption notes

Tom7 uses deliberately impractical “hard drive” experiments to ask what separates a read/write interface from reliable storage. He describes temporarily keeping payloads in returning ping packets, encoding data in Tetris boards, and attempting to reuse memory chips from spent test cartridges. The narration repeatedly qualifies the designs: packet loss can destroy data, outside hosts need not be trustworthy, emulator state disappears without power, and the cartridge device never reaches a benchmark. This blends technical experimentation with comedy. The guide adopts only self-contained spoken designs and limitations, without verifying screen demonstrations, wiring or performance figures. The opening physics jokes, guesses about testing chemistry and closing cryptocurrency judgments are not treated as established facts.