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Each side, or surface, of one hard drive platter is called a head. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive is called ready drive.
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A platter is the portion of a hard disk drive that information is written to.
The hard disk drive platter is used to store magnetic data or information that comes from the hard disk drive, where they are stored. The hard disk drive can contain one or more hard disk platter.
No. A platter would be a component of a hard disk drive.
SECTOR!
A hard disk drive platter
Each platter on a hard drive has 2 heads.Every Additional Platter you can multiply x2Example:1 Platter x 2 = 2 Heads2 Platters x 2 = 4 Heads3 Platters x 2 = 6 Heads4 Platters x 2 = 8 Heads5 Platters x 2 = 10 HeadsETC...At least until some new hard drive Architecture comes into place.
7200rpm
An aluminum platter covered with a magnetisable coating.
In a hard drive, the read/write heads float on a cushion of air above the platter. This ensures that there is a tiny gap between the heads and the spinning platter, allowing the heads to read and write data without physically touching the surface of the disk.
No. of Cylinders = No. of Tracks on each platter multiply by 2 for both sides since each platter stores information on both sides.