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What analogy can you see use to describe the platter and arm of a hard drive?
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What is a platter?
A platter is the portion of a hard disk drive that information is written to.
Each side or surface of one hard drive platter is called?
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.
Does a hard drive consists of platters?
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.
Is platter a computer input device for disabled people?
No. A platter would be a component of a hard disk drive.
The top or bottom surface of a platter on a hard drive?
bottom
What is the smallest unit of a data on a hard drive platter?
SECTOR!
What is Each side or surface of one hard drive platter?
head
What is name of hardisk which is use in computers?
A hard disk drive platter
The current platter rotation rate of a modern hard disk drive is?
7200rpm
What storage media does a hard drive have?
An aluminum platter covered with a magnetisable coating.
How many cylinders are there for each platter in a Hard drive?
No. of Cylinders = No. of Tracks on each platter multiply by 2 for both sides since each platter stores information on both sides.
What is directly tied to the speed of the computer?
The RPM of your hard drive. A 7000RPM drive is faster than a 5000RPM drive, and an SSD is faster than all Platter hard drives.
