[Pc_Support] Spindled?

[Bruce Metcalf]

At 10:40 AM 8/30/2006, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>Tommy Foster wrote:
>>I just got a 250 gig Hitachi hard drive ...
>>This drive will be for backups, mostly (maybe exclusively).
>
>Just remember that with 3.5" commodity disk drives, you should keep
>them spindled regularly and do your best to avoid shock.

Would someone please explain the term "spindled" in this context?

Last time I "spindled" something it was a Hollerith card for a 
keypunch. I'm not at all sure I'd want to do that to a disk drive, 
even if I *was* strong enough to bend it into a circle.

Bruce Metcalf