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What heads float on a cushion of air above the the platter?
In a hard drive, the read/write heads float on a cushion of air above the platter. This ensures that there is a tiny gap between the heads and the spinning platter, allowing the heads to read and write data without physically touching the surface of the disk.
If a magnetic drive has four platters how many heads does it have?
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.
What is a cylinder in a hard disk?
The Vertical position of all a drive's read/write heads over their corresponding platter on a specific track, forming a vertical cylinder.
What is the term used to describe what happens when the read-write head of a hard disk touches the surface of the disk platter?
HDI - Head to Disk Interference.
What are the parts of the hard disk?
A hard disk can be either internal or external and one can use it to save files. The parts of a hard disk are the disk case, spindle, disk platter, actuator and the read-write arm.
What is a platter?
A platter is the portion of a hard disk drive that information is written to.
Reading data is performed in magnetic disk by?
Read/Write Heads
What are the concentric magnetic circles that run around a disk platter called?
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.
What are hard disk cartridge?
A hard-diskis a component of a hard-disk drive: it is the circular disk on which the magnetic data is stored.The rigid nature of the platters in a hard drive is what gives them their name (as opposed to the flexible materials which are used to makefloppy disk).Hard drives typically have several platters which are mounted on the samespindle. A platter can store information on both sides, requiring two heads per platter.
What the synonym of disk?
In computer terms, a "platter".
How is a disk platter organized?
Sectors / Cylinders
What is a platter spinner?
A platter spinner is another name for a disk jockey. A disk jockey would play vinyl recordings in the radio station. They were known as platters.
