Drive Destruction 11
This is a drive head, normally it is flat and not sticking up like that, but there is a tiny magnet on the tip of that which flips off and on depending on what "bit" needs to be written on a sector of the hard drive.
There is a Drive head on the top and bottom of each platter iside the hard drive, the platters are those shiney disks - which are normally flat but the impact of the sledge has bent them.
The more platters, the more data you can store on the drive, most drives have 1 or 2 platters in them, but some server drives can have 4-5 platters, what this also means is that a drive with more platters is faster because it can write simultaneously to more than one platter, so your data is spread out accross the platters instead of being all lined up next to one another.
These spin at anywhere from 4800 Rotations Per Minute(RPM) in a low end laptop hard drive, to 7200 RPM in a normal comptuer hard drive, to 15,000 RPM in a server or NAS(Network Attached Storage)
Imagine that? Spinning around over 7000 times in a single minute? For some perspective, the blades on a deli slicer spin at around 300 RPM. Imagine the meat you could slice with one of those?
Drive Destruction 11
This is a drive head, normally it is flat and not sticking up like that, but there is a tiny magnet on the tip of that which flips off and on depending on what "bit" needs to be written on a sector of the hard drive.
There is a Drive head on the top and bottom of each platter iside the hard drive, the platters are those shiney disks - which are normally flat but the impact of the sledge has bent them.
The more platters, the more data you can store on the drive, most drives have 1 or 2 platters in them, but some server drives can have 4-5 platters, what this also means is that a drive with more platters is faster because it can write simultaneously to more than one platter, so your data is spread out accross the platters instead of being all lined up next to one another.
These spin at anywhere from 4800 Rotations Per Minute(RPM) in a low end laptop hard drive, to 7200 RPM in a normal comptuer hard drive, to 15,000 RPM in a server or NAS(Network Attached Storage)
Imagine that? Spinning around over 7000 times in a single minute? For some perspective, the blades on a deli slicer spin at around 300 RPM. Imagine the meat you could slice with one of those?