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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No. of Cylinders = No. of Tracks on each platter multiply by 2 for both sides since each platter stores information on both sides.
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".
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.
The concentric magnetic circles that run around a disk platter are called "tracks." Each track is a circular path on the surface of the disk where data is recorded. Data is organized in these tracks, and the read/write head of the disk accesses the information by moving to the appropriate track.
Each surface of a polyhedron is called a face.
A cylinder. Each track on each platter can be thought of as being a ring, thus if you isolated the same track upon each platter you'd have a stack of imaginary rings which would therefore form an imaginary cylinder.
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Yes. The magnetic 'platters' that store the information are arranged horizontally and are 'read' by an arm that swings over them. Think of an album on a turntable with the needle arm and you have a picture of one single set of such devices. Each drive is comprised of many sets of these in tight alignment, held in place by a spindle. The arm is held to tight tolerances and does not touch the platter but can read and write data to it by changing the magnetic state of the 'bits' on the platter. The density of the bits and the speed of the platter determine size of the drive (capacity) and it's cost.
AnswerIt is called surface tension.Erosion is the process of Weathering and transport of solids.