Spindle (computer) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-19

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive


00:03:24 1 History
00:10:32 2 Technology
00:10:41 2.1 Magnetic recording
00:14:46 2.2 Components
00:17:50 2.3 Error rates and handling
00:20:51 2.4 Development
00:24:32 3 Capacity
00:25:10 3.1 Calculation
00:27:50 3.2 Formatting
00:29:46 3.3 Units
00:30:02 4 Price evolution
00:31:50 5 Form factors
00:32:31 6 Performance characteristics
00:35:12 6.1 Latency
00:37:52 6.2 Data transfer rate
00:38:00 6.3 Other considerations
00:39:52 7 Access and interfaces
00:40:39 8 Integrity and failure
00:45:53 9 Market segments
00:50:44 10 Manufacturers and sales
00:51:11 11 Competition from solid-state drives
00:55:27 12 External hard disk drives
00:56:37 13 See also
00:59:47 14 Notes
01:01:37 15 References



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A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk, is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. HDDs are a type of non-volatile storage, retaining stored data even when powered off.Introduced by IBM in 1956, HDDs became the dominant secondary storage device for general-purpose computers by the early 1960s. Continuously improved, HDDs have maintained this position into the modern era of servers and personal computers. More than 200 companies have produced HDDs historically, though after extensive industry consolidation most units are manufactured by Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. HDDs dominate the volume of storage produced (exabytes per year) for servers. Though production is growing slowly, sales revenues and unit shipments are declining because solid-state drives (SSDs) have higher data-transfer rates, higher areal storage density, better reliability, and much lower latency and access times.The revenues for SSDs, most of which use NAND, slightly exceed those for HDDs. Though SSDs have nearly 10 times higher cost per bit, they are replacing HDDs in applications where speed, power consumption, small size, and durability are important.The primary characteristics of an HDD are its capacity and performance. Capacity is specified in unit prefixes corresponding to powers of 1000: a 1-terabyte (TB) drive has a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes (GB; where 1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes). Typically, some of an HDD's capacity is unavailable to the user because it is used by the file system and the computer operating system, and possibly inbuilt redundancy for error correction and recovery. Also there is confusion regarding storage capacity, since capacities are stated in decimal Gigabytes (powers of 10) by HDD manufacturers, where as some operaring systems report capacities in binary Gibibytes, which results in a smaller number than advertised. Performance is specified by the time required to move the heads to a track or cylinder (average access time) adding the time it takes for the desired sector to move under the head (average latency, which is a function of the physical rotational speed in revolutions per minute), and finally the speed at which the data is transmitted (data rate).
The two most common form factors for modern HDDs are 3.5-inch, for desktop computers, and 2.5-inch, primarily for laptops. HDDs are connected to systems by standard interface cables such as PATA (Parallel ATA), SATA (Serial ATA), USB or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) cables.