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Introduction to Hard Disk (HDD) A hard

drive is a mass storage device found in all


PCs (with some [exclusions) that is used to
store permanent data such as the operating
system, programs and user files. The data
on hard drives can be erased and/or
overwritten, the hard drive is classed as a
non-volatile storage device which means it
doesn't require a constant power supply in
order to retain the information stored on it
(unlike RAM). Inside every hard drive are
small round disk-like objects made of either
an aluminium/alloy or a glass/ceramic
composite, these are called platters, each
platter is coated with a special magnetic
coating enabling them to store data
magnetically. Hovering above these platters
are read/write heads that transfer data to
and from the platters. Hard Drive Capacities
Hard drives come with many different
storage capacities, hard drive capacity is
measured in bytes, with common capacities
being stated in MB (Megabytes) and GB
(Gigabytes). To understand these figures
correctly you need to know the basics of
how data is stored/processed in digital
systems such as PCs. Digital data is a series
of 1's (ones) and 0's (zeroes) which are
referred to as bits (Binary digITs), a byte is
made up of 8 of these bits, so a single byte
of data may look like 01001011 (8
consecutive bits). 1 Bit = either a 0 (zero) or
a 1 (one) 1 Byte = 8 bits 1 KB (Kilobyte) =
1024 bytes (210) 1 MB (Megabyte) = 1024
Kilobytes (220) 1 GB (Gigabyte) = 1024
Megabytes (230) 1 TB (Terabyte) = 1024
Gigabytes (240) In the old days it was
common to find hard drives with a capacity
of just 5MB, nowadays it is hard to buy a
new hard drive with less than 40GB, that's
40,960 Megabytes !

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