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[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On commerical disks those are fixed on the frame (but can be flexed/cut away of course)

[โ€“] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...and they only protect the data on the disk from being changed, you can still copy it. Otherwise the disk would be unreadable.