The death of a hard drive

An opportunity to see how the hard drive work's inside your computer.
In principle a hard drive is fairly simple but ,they are amazing!

See how fast the actuator mechanism work's.

At the end of the video i am damaging the surface of the hard drive with a massively strong hard drive magnet!! ,it was only an old 4.3Gig drive.

What's Inside a Hard Drive?

The Platters The platters are the actual disks inside the drive that store the magnetized data.Traditionally platters are made of a light aluminum alloy and coated with a magnetizable material.

The Spindle and Spindle Motor ,the platters in a drive are separated by disk spacers and are clamped to a rotating spindle that turns all the platters in unison

The Read/Write Heads ,all the heads are attached to a single head actuator, or actuator arm that moves the heads around the platters.

The Head Actuator ,All the heads are attached to a single head actuator, or actuator arm that moves the heads around the platters ,when in operation the tiny read/write heads on the end of each arm don't actually touch the platter surfaces, they ride on a cushion of air!.

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[ScottieNiven]

How many GB's?

[dazaro3]

Both was 4.3Gig in size,and both had very noisy bearings

[type900]

A hard drive is the only case where torture will never give you the information out of it. :D

Poor drive.

[Housslv]

poor hard drive :/

[ExplosiveBoy93]

How desperate it searches for a lase piece of data!

[altern8ive]

that's the best thing that's ever happened to a UB40 track!! :D

[HeyLookItsASpah]

@type900 if you torture a rock I don't think it'll tell you anything...

[Crossoffire13]

Old and slow. Ah the good old days.

[crashbandicoot4everr]

@Logoseum for a maxtor? :P

[NoobExpert1]

LoL am i the only one here that thought it felt the pain'

[5dayslater]

Aren't hard drives ruined as soon as they are opened just from the dirty air? I think I read that somewhere.