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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.
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