platter

n.

1. A large shallow dish or plate, used especially for serving food.
2. A meal or course served on a platter.
3. Slang. A phonograph record.

idiom:

on a platter

1. Without exertion; effortlessly: always got what they wanted on a platter.

[Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plate, plate. See plate.]

One of the disks in a hard disk drive. Each platter provides a top and bottom recording surface. There may be only one or several platters in a drive with each platter having its own pair of read/write heads. See magnetic disk.

A Lotta Platters

It seems that disk platters will spin for many years to come. This earlier 5.25" drive held 9GB total in all of its 14 platters. Today's drives would have 100 times the storage capacity in that amount of platter space. (Image courtesy of Singapore Technologies.)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - platte, trætallerken, flad hat

Nederlands (Dutch)
schotel, harde schijf (computer), draaitafel van platenspeler, schijf (grammofoonplaat)

Français (French)
n. - plat de service, plat en bois, assiette (de charcuterie, etc), (US, Audio) plateau, (US, Audio) disque

Deutsch (German)
n. - Platte, Teller

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πιατέλα, πινάκιο, πλατό του πικάπ

Italiano (Italian)
vassoio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - travessa (f)

Русский (Russian)
блюдо, граммофонная пластинка

Español (Spanish)
n. - plato, fuente, disco

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - uppläggningsfat, (grammofon)platta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大浅盘

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大淺盤

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (타원형의 얇은) 큰 접시, [녹]음반

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大皿, レコード

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) طبق كبير, أسطوانه فونوغرافيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צלחת, פנכה, תקליט, תקליט מגנטי‬

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