Bearing supporting the spindle motor.

Capacitors providing temporary power during outages.

Drive health-monitoring technology.

Operation writing cached data to persistent storage.

Aerodynamic bearing effect supporting a flying head.

SSD controller operating without dedicated DRAM.

Controller managing NVMe commands and flash storage.

Battery preserving storage-controller cache data.

Small component carrying the magnetic read/write element.

SSD technique using system memory for mapping information.