Disk Drive Diagram. Hard disk structure diagram structure of magnetic disks hard disk drive when the disk is in use a drive motor spins it at high speed. 4 surfaces 64 trackssurface 128 sectorstrack 256 bytessector what is the capacity of the hard disk.
Data icon 3d 3d icon profile hosting 3d icon machine diagram database icon 3d sql server. 60 sec 3600 rotations 1 sec 60 rotations. Strictly speaking drive refers to the motorized mechanical aspect that is distinct from its medium such as a tape drive and its tape or a floppy disk drive and its floppy.
A platter in a hard disk is coated with magnetic material.
Convert it to a form that the computer can understand. A platter in a hard disk is coated with magnetic material. In a 3 disk raid 5 set we have three disks d1 d2 d3 comprising lun 1 which is mapped to say the r. This diagram uses a cd as an example but the same general principle applies to other types of optical discs.