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Branch Education | How do Hard Disk Drives Work?

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Have you ever wondered how Hard Disk Drives can store billions of bits of data within the volume of a short, small brick? Thinking about it, it's really truly incredible that a library worth of data, millions of photos, or thousands of videos can be stored in a device that costs less than $100.


Data storage has truly evolved to incredible densities over the past 6 decades, and in this video, we're going to see how exactly a Hard Disk Drive stores data, how it reads and writes data, and then the cutting-edge technologies that are continuing to decrease the size of each bit of data.


00:00 - Introduction to Hard Disk Drives.

01:00 - Components inside a Hard Disk Drive.

04:42 - Writing to an HDD.

07:40 - Reading from an HDD.

10:11 - Fitting more bits per area.

11:05 - PCBWay Sponsorship 

12:12 - Cutting-edge HDD Technology

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