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| − | '''Hard disks''' are mechanical forms of [[computer]] memory consisting of spinning platters of magnetic materials inside a sealed unit. Magnetization is used to store compartmentalized information in [[binary]] code, by turning the magnetized piece of the drive "on" or "off." A single hard disk will contain billions of these individual points of information ([[ | + | '''Hard disks''' are mechanical forms of [[computer]] memory consisting of spinning platters of magnetic materials inside a sealed unit.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/technology/hard-disk Hard disk] from britannica.com</ref> Magnetization is used to store compartmentalized information in [[binary]] code, by turning the magnetized piece of the drive "on" or "off." A single hard disk will contain billions of these individual points of information ([[bit]]s) aggregating to larger amounts of storage, such as [[byte]]s or megabytes. Hard disks are vulnerable to [[magnetic field]]s. |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| − | [[Hardware]] | + | *[[Hardware]] |
| − | [[Central processing unit]] | + | *[[Central processing unit]] |
==References== | ==References== | ||
| − | {{reflist | + | {{reflist}} |
[[Category:Computer Science]] | [[Category:Computer Science]] | ||
Revision as of 15:02, September 4, 2018
Hard disks are mechanical forms of computer memory consisting of spinning platters of magnetic materials inside a sealed unit.[1] Magnetization is used to store compartmentalized information in binary code, by turning the magnetized piece of the drive "on" or "off." A single hard disk will contain billions of these individual points of information (bits) aggregating to larger amounts of storage, such as bytes or megabytes. Hard disks are vulnerable to magnetic fields.