head
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.
bottom
No. of Cylinders = No. of Tracks on each platter multiply by 2 for both sides since each platter stores information on both sides.
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!
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.
A hard disk drive platter
Computer hard disk drives may be made of a stack of one or more disks (made out of metal or ceramic) covered in a magnetic "paint". Each of these disks is called a "platter".
2 per platter
7200rpm