hardware system

Hard drive rotating at approximately 7,200 revolutions per minute.

Hard drive rotating at approximately 5,400 revolutions per minute.

Rotational speed of hard-drive platters.

Small memory area buffering hard-drive data.

Platter area where heads may rest when parked.

Electromagnetic mechanism moving a disk-drive head assembly.

Magnetic element that reads or writes platter data.

Mechanism positioning a hard-drive head.

Rotating shaft supporting hard-drive platters.

Magnetic disk surface used to store data.