A head never actually touches the disk platter as it reads the data, but hovers over it.
"Have you experienced any slippage on the disk platter?"
The new method also eliminates some of the usual manufacturing processes associated with creating disk platters.
This interface almost always works at a different speed than that of the hard disk platter.
This way, the applications will be stored on the outer, faster part of the disk platters so they load faster.
Before the end of next year, Komag will almost certainly be shipping disk platters that can store 120 billion bytes of data each.
An early disk cartridge was a single hard disk platter encased in a protective plastic shell.
It could be considered the precursor to the hard disk platter, but in the form of a drum rather than a flat disk.
A smashed disk platter fell in shards onto his lap.
The drive circuitry usually has a small amount of memory, used to store the bits going to and coming from the disk platter.