Hard disk drive platter
Videos
A hard disk drive platter or hard disk is the circular magnetic disk on which digital data is stored in a hard disk drive. The rigid nature of the platters is what gives them their name. Hard drives t
Hard disk platter
Inside view of a hard disk
Hard disk drive platter, 2.5" Samsung MP0402H
Destroyed hard disk, glass platter visible
Hard disk drive
Videos
A hard disk drive, hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical computer data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapid
Hard disk drive platter
…A hard disk drive platter or hard disk is the circular magnetic disk on which digital data is stored in a hard disk drive. The rigid nature of the platters is what gives them their name (as opposed to the flexible materials which are used to make floppy disks). Hard drives…
A partially disassembled IBM 350 hard disk drive (RAMAC)
Hitachi 500GB 3.5" drive, 2011, opened to show the disk platters and read/write arm
A 3.5" and a 2.5" HDD with front covers removed to show their internals
Recording of single magnetisations of bits on a 200 MB HDD-platter (recording made visible using CMOS-MagView)