How hard drives work @ Icrontic

Vikingod · Jun 5, 2007, 02:20 PM

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Most people have thousands upon thousands of megaybytes of data on their computer, and indeed the hard drives we used today to store all that information have grown by astronomical amounts since the early days, but have you ever wondered just how a hard drive actually works? Before we touch on how data is actually read and written to the disk, it's important to cover the basic elements of a hard drive. We'll primarily be covering today's platter-based hard drives, however we will also touch briefly on the new solid-state disks (SSDs) you may have heard about.

Jun 5, 2007, 02:20 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	How hard drives work @ Icrontic Source: Icrontic _____________ Most people have thousands upon thousands of megaybytes of data on their computer, and indeed the hard drives we used today to store all that information have grown by astronomical amounts since the early days, but have you ever wondered just how a hard drive actually works? Before we touch on how data is actually read and written to the disk, it's important to cover the basic elements of a hard drive. We'll primarily be covering today's platter-based hard drives, however we will also touch briefly on the new solid-state disks (SSDs) you may have heard about.