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INSIDE A HARD DISK DRIVE
Tech Magazine ZA|July 2024
Learn the basics of what's inside that mysterious metal box in your computer.
- MANDY J WATSON
INSIDE A HARD DISK DRIVE

This is the view inside a hard disk drive, something we do not often get to see because the units are sealed to keep dust out.

Once they're opened they're ruined unless it is done in a clean room.

That's because the mechanisms that read and write data, the read/ write heads, are positioned tens of nanometres away from the platters.

This story is from the July 2024 edition of Tech Magazine ZA.

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