Historical Computer Engineering - Hard Drives
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Hard Drives

Process of reading and writing data

Festplatte

Festplatte Turn on
Festplatte Turn platters
Festplatte Signal
Festplatte Position read-write head
Festplatte Write
Festplatte Read
Festplatte Return data

Turn platters

For all the crucial operations within a harddisk the platters need to be turning. Therefore the first step is to start turning them. They reach up to 15'000 turns per minute.