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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.
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Which storage device use magnetic film or aluminum platters for storing data?
Hard Disk Drive, Floppy Drive
How the flash drive is effective?
The flash drive has no moving parts and thus is faster than the traditional spinning drive storage devices.
How much storage space does a jaz drive contain?
It contains what ever you want it to
What are advantages and disadvantages of a hard disk drive?
Hard disk drives are a highly popular medium of computer storage because of their enormous capacity compared to other media. As a disadvantage, they are more costly and, depending on the type, have a limited lifetime.
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.
What is the fucntion of the hard drive?
A hard disk drive (HDD), commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive
If a hard drive has three platters how manty heads does it have?
6
If a magntic drive have four platters how many heads does it have?
8
On which physical part of a hard drive is the data stored?
platters
Is a hard disk drive volital?
I believe that you mean to ask if hard disk drives are considered volatile storage media or not. Volatile memory is memory that is lost when the storage medium is not being supplied with electricity. Hard drives do not need power for storage, only for reading and writing data from and to the platters; this means that hard drives are not volatile storage media.
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 is the special area of computer memory which contains data that the program is likely to need from storage?
Hard Drive
