Inside Computer Hard Disk Drive

Non volatile means data is retained when the computer is turned off.

Inside computer hard disk drive. I show what s inside of a regular and ssd hard drive and what the major components do. The type of cable used sata or pata depends on the kind of drive but most hard drive purchases include them. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive. The back end of the hard drive contains a port for a cable that connects to the motherboard.

Laptops often use a 2 5 inch hard drive or ssd. A hard disk drive hdd hard disk hard drive or fixed disk is an electro mechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital data using one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. I show what s inside of a regular and ssd hard drive and what the major components do. It is a secondary storage device used to store data permanently random access memory ram being the primary memory device.

For over 60 years the hard disk drive hdd has played an important role in the modern era of digital technology. Below is a picture of the inside of a laptop and desktop computer hard drive. As can be seen in the picture the main six components of a desktop hard disk drive are the head actuator read write actuator arm read write head spindle chassis and platter. Storage capacity of the hdd has grown from a mere 5 mb in 1956 on fifty 24 inch disks to more than 10 tb tera bytes stored on three 5 1 2 inch diameter disks.

A hard disk drive hdd is a non volatile computer storage device containing magnetic disks or platters rotating at high speeds.