Hard Drives: Under the Hood
By chuggyhandbags, 09 November 2007 - 17:32 4 comments
On November 8th, Western Digital held an editor's day event that included surprisingly in-depth details about the inner workings of hard drives. In his article, "Hard Drives: Under the Hood," Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech provides us with a good primer on this often overlooked, yet essential, piece of technology. Loyd describes the nanotechnology behind the hard drive, what a disassembled hard drive looks like (and how the parts work together), and finally the "heart and soul" of the hard drive: the head stack.
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Comments (4)
jbrunt1990 - 09 November 2007 - 19:40
Good read, quite interesting.
ThaCrip - 10 November 2007 - 01:28
yep... i never realized how CLOSE those read heads are to the platters.... cause i knew they where fairly close but thats DAMN CLOSE. lol
worth the read it told me even more stuff i never knew about hard drives
Wow, I never realized how complex they are. When you look at a hard drive, you don't think all that goes into play.
Its easy to see why hard drives are shock sensitive with the proximity to the read heads to the platters.
f0rbez - 10 November 2007 - 06:05
Very quick and informative overview of hard drives. Good read. I respect Western Digital more and more. Even though they're the "cheaper" hard drives compared to Seagate, I haven't had a single WD drive fail on me.