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Disc drive are  classified  nonvolatile, random  access,  bottom , magnetic, data storage device  and Importance Of Using A Hard Drive Enclosure

Introduced by IBM in 1956 hard disk drives have decreased in cost and physical size over the yrs while dramatically increasing in capacity and speed. Hard disk drives have been the prevalent device for secondary storage of data in general purpose computers since the early 1960s. They have maintained this perspective because advances in their transcription capacity, cost, reliability, and speed have kept pace with the necessaries for secondary storage . A hard disk records data by magnetizing a thin film of ferromagnetic material on a disk. User data is encoded into a run-length limitedcode and the encoded data written as a pattern of sequential magnetic transitions on the disk. The data is represented by the time between transitions. The self-clocking nature of the run-length limited codes used enables the clocking of the data during reads. The data is read from the disk by discovering the transitions so decoding the written run-length restricted data back to the user data.

The heads are kept from adjoining the platter area by the air that is extremely more or less the platter; that air goes at or near the disk speed. The record and playback head are mounted on a block called a slider, and the surface next to the platter is shaped to keep it just barely out of contact. This forms a type of air bearing. Opposite the actuator at the end of the head support arm is the read-write head (near center in photo); thin printed-circuit cables connect the read-write heads to amplifier electronics mounted at the pivot of the actuator. A flexible, more or less U shaped, ribbon cable, seen edge-on sub contract and to the left of the actuator arm goes on the link with the comptroller display panel on the opposite side of How to assemble a Hard Drive Enclosure