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A hard disk drive is a Non-volatile_storage, Random_accessdevice for digital data. It features rotating Hard_disk_platterson a motor-driven Spindle_(computer) within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by Disk_read-and-write_headthat float on a film of air above the platters.

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