Sometime last year I drew up a short article explaining, with images, the basic components of a popular desktop hard drive, a 3.5" 1TB WD drive. The article might be useful to people who want a basic intro to the major components that make up a hard drive or to put the basic principles of data recovery into perspective.

http://www.southbit.co.za/inside-a-hard-drive/

Doomer's original article in this forum is more thorough and can be found at http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12400, but perhaps this article is also useful as it shows a drive which parks heads on a ramp as opposed to the Seagate article in which the drive parks heads on the platter.

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Thanks for posting.
I will check it out.

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thanks allot mr Spildit . may i talk or chat with u again? give me ur e mail plz?

GOOD,Hard teardown map, the article describes the internal structure of the hard disk.

Thanks for the details inside of the hard drive.

Ditto.

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same to nick.

This was an excellent article about the modern hard disk drive. this information will be helpful for the visitors.

Thsis is awesome thank you

good job

nice sharing

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thank you for sharing

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