This is the read/write head of a Hard Drive at 100x magnification. The large flat area is aerodynamically shaped to create an air cushion between itself and the fast spinning platter.
Where is the actual part that read/writes the data?
This is the read/write head of a Hard Drive at 100x magnification...
Leo Long
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Ayden Perez
probably too small to see.
Nathan Moore
its right there in the middle of the picture
Daniel Wright
See the little box in the middle of the picture?
Brody Martin
OP you should see the read head of a flash drive. Thats so tiny that they could dance on op's pics we wouldn't see them.
Aaron Fisher
>That's what she said
Jace Cox
That's just the slider. Far too large to be the read/write head. We're talking probably nanometers for the read/write head. You would not be able to see it in this picture. It would be too small
Mason Hill
The reading and writing is achieved through the use of coils, a very tiny current is induced in the coil when reading, and the coil is driven to induce a magnetic field when writing.
Owen King
lol... that 'box thing' is about 1 mm wide. that would mean the hdd hold less than 1 kb of data if that were the size of the head
Brandon Robinson
so there is no 'fine point'? it's just coils at a large distance detecting the magnetic field changes?