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[Abigail A. Zachary Blog] How Data Is Stored On A Hard Drive: The speed of this rotation is measured in rotations per minute (RPM) and the higher the performance of the hard drive…the higher the RPM is which increases the reading and writing of data to the platters. Any surface contact to the platters can cause serious damage to the magnetic strip the contains the data.

[Sharp Suit | Computer Stuff] Sharp Suit | Computer Stuff » Blog Archive » Notebook Data ...: The data are accessed via heads that are minutely placed on the top and .But the disk gets crashed if a single dust particle enters the platter surface.

[Hdd Repair] How data is stored on a hard drive: The plate surface Platters or spindle is rotated by an electric motor. The speed of this rotation is measured in revolutions per minute (rpm), the better the performance of the hard disk …

[Tech Blog] Hard drive failure. How you can protect yourself and catch the ...: Before we can go into hard drive failure, we need to know how hard drives work.  A hard drive consists of a spinning magnetic platter and a read/write head on an actuator arm.  Its not unlike a record player, except of carving or reading grooves in the surface, data is stored magnetically, like a tape.  The platters in most drives spin at 5400 to 7200 revolutions per minute, sometimes even faster, and the read/write head skims just above the surface on a cushion of air created by the spinning platters.  We can start to see the potential for failure here.

[HD Doctor Blog] Glossary of Hard Disk Drive Terminology (Letter H) - HD Doctor Blog: Refers to the damage incurred to a read/write head when the head comes into contact with the disk surface. A head crash might be caused by severe shock, dust, fingerprints, or smoke, and can cause damage to the surface of the disk and/or the head.

[New Fun Blog - Scott Bilas] Why I Disabled My Windows Page File at New Fun Blog - Scott Bilas: I was thinking the other day about how much crap is in Windows to deal with the problem of mechanical latency. If you didn’t have that head moving back and forth and have to wait for the right spot of magnetized goo to rotate under it, so many things would be totally unnecessary.

[Hack a Day] Hard drive resurrection - Hack a Day: The strangest thing happen to one drive that ive just bougth (second hand)Seagate ST3120026A Barracuda 120GB, when I plug it in for to the pc and sata cable the computer dindt turn on at all after several trys it turn on but next minute when I look there was a litle fire coming from the botom of the drive, ive turn the computer off and toke the drive out, then I notice a litle tiny chip or what that was looked totaly tosted, I pick it out clean the drive on the spot where the chip was then guess what? ive plug it back and it was stil working!!!

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: The Security Implications of Windows Volume ...: Back in times past "HD platters" came in packs about 16" across, the operator used to press an "unload" button on a machine the size of a laudromat machine lift the lid, lift out the platter pack and drop in a new one close the lid etc etc. All for 20Mb of storage...

[Men With Pens] Inside the Secret Squad Room: Agent Olsen Lets Us Look | Men With Pens: Kind of related to backup, a good practice I learned in my day job as a software developer is to use a version control system to manage your files. This helps you in the “Oops, I just accidentally deleted next week’s blog posts”

[drive blog] drive blog: Locals lag on quality: Japanese car buyers are not as picky or attentive when it comes to faults with their cars, whereas Euro cars are seen as more prestigious so more is expected from them. Also European car makers come out with all sorts of innovative technologies which may have a few bugs to iron out early on, whereas the Japanese just copy this technology from the Europeans after the bugs have been ironed out.

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