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The document discusses how data is stored on a hard disk drive. It explains that data is stored on circular platters coated with a magnetic material. The platters are divided into tracks and sectors to store data in the form of magnetic fields representing 0s and 1s. The orientation of the magnetic fields determines whether it represents a 0 or 1.

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How Data Is Stored On Hard Disk

The document discusses how data is stored on a hard disk drive. It explains that data is stored on circular platters coated with a magnetic material. The platters are divided into tracks and sectors to store data in the form of magnetic fields representing 0s and 1s. The orientation of the magnetic fields determines whether it represents a 0 or 1.

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How Data is stored on Hard Disk

By Madhavi

Hard disk is a common data storage used in computers. Data is stored on the hard disk in the form of 0 and 1. Through this

article we will find out how actually data is stored on the hard disk drive. The part of the hard disk that stores the data is

known as platter. Platters are circular disk made of a non magnetic material typically aluminum alloy, glass or ceramic and

are coated with a thin layer (10-20nm) of a magnetic material. Platters are further separated in to the tracks and sectors

where tracks are concentric circles while sectors are pie shaped wedges on the track.

Hard disk stores information in the form of magnetic fields. Data is stored digitally in the form of tiny magnetized regions

on the platter where each region represents a bit. To write a data on the hard disk, a magnetic field is placed on the tiny

field in one of these two polarities: N-S – If North Pole arrives before the south pole and S-N – if the south pole arrives

before the north pole while the field is accessed. An orientation in the one direction (like N-S) can represent the ‘1’ while

the opposite orientation (S-N) represents “0”. This polarity is sensed by integrated controllers built within the hard disk.

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