Does a full SSD physically weigh more than an empty one?

Does a full SSD physically weigh more than an empty one?

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no

Yes

Yes, idiot

Yes actually. It's not possible to measure the difference, not even close, but in principle it should be heavier.

quora.com/Is-a-full-128-GB-pen-drive-heavier-than-an-empty-one

Doesn't no how to for flash memory.

Only if you store heavy metal on it

If you store pictures of thick women it's no wonder it will be heavier

what if is filled with a file of 0s?
shouldn't be lighter than an "empty" ssd?

What if they're 2d?

Just get weight difference and substract 1 dimension.

>full
of what? lead?

Q. When an e-reader is loaded with thousands of books, does it gain any weight?

A. “In principle, the answer is yes,” said John D. Kubiatowicz, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

“However,” he said, “the amount is very small, on the order of an atogram,” or 10^–18 grams. “This amount is effectively unmeasurable,” he went on, since even the most sensitive scales have a resolution of only 10^–9 grams. Further, it is only about one hundred-millionth as much as the estimated fluctuation from charging and discharging the device’s battery. A Kindle, for example, uses flash memory, composed of special transistors, one per stored bit, which use trapped electrons to distinguish between a digital 1 and a 0.

“Although the total number of electrons in the memory does not change as the stored data changes,” Dr. Kubiatowicz said, the trapped ones have a higher energy than the untrapped ones. A conservative estimate of the difference would be 10^–15 joules per bit.

As the equation E=mc^2 makes clear, this energy is equivalent to mass and will have weight. Assuming that all these bits in an empty four-gigabyte Kindle are in a lower energy state and that half have a higher energy in a full Kindle, this translates to an energy difference of 1.7 times 10^–5 joules, Dr. Kubiatowicz calculated. Plugging this into Einstein’s equation yields his rough estimate of 10^–18 grams.

Yes by a little.

>quora.com/Is-a-full-128-GB-pen-drive-heavier-than-an-empty-one
This guy is simply wrong. The weight IS increasing, the difference is incredibly small, but it's there.

yes

>quora
>means he searched for it
>top answer by pajeet "co-founder and CEO"
user, you're embarrassing yourself
look how those sluts laugh at you

Sorry user but he's (probably) right. SSDs work by changing the state of the transistors. What you're saying is correct for magnetic media. See ellipsix.net/blog/2009/04/how-much-does-data-weigh.html According to this line of thought you can probably say the same for optical media as well.

>changing the state of the transistors
And the "1"-state has higher energy, thus more mass.

Yeah, looked up the workings and this is correct. Quora fag is wrong. (And balance has been restored.)

is probably more correct because everyone in this thread is forgetting HDD/SSD's slightly deteriorate over time so whether there is a negligible increase there is also a decrease.
In some cases they may end up being lighter.

Does your brain weigh more, the more you learn?

I'm pretty sure it'll also have more mass when its switched on?