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What type of storage drive contains spinning platters?
A hard disk drive consists of one or more thin disks that spin at high speed (1200 to 15000 rpm) while magnetic heads read data from them, hovering extremely close to them without making contact.
A hard drive stores data on?
hard disk save data on platters. On platters there are tracks and sectors in which the data is saved.
If a hard drive has three platters how manty heads does it have?
6
On which physical part of a hard drive is the data stored?
platters
What is the different between ATA hard drive and Solid State hard drive?
ATA and Solid State are two different things. ATA is a connector type with SATA being it's newer form. Solid State is a type of drive medium which the data is stored on. A typical Hard Drive uses spinning platters while a Solid State drive uses flash media with no moving parts.
What is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible circular platters?
it is the hard disk
How can I stop hard drive from spinning constantly?
If a hard drive is constantly spinning, there is likely too many background programs running. Remove or restrict the programs to slow down the hard drive.
What are the tracks that are the same distance from the center of the platters on a hard drive called?
D) cylinder
Storage device contains one or more inflexible circular platters?
That's a hard disk.
Which storage device use magnetic film or aluminum platters for storing data?
Hard Disk Drive, Floppy Drive
What does the harddisk do?
A computer's hard disk or hard drive stores information such has the operating system, programs, and files. It stores the information as small magnetic fields on the hard disc.A hard disk drive is a non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating rigid (i.e. hard) platters with magnetic surfaces.
What device uses a stack of platters to permanently store large amounts of information?
A computer's hard-drive.
