Definition: Head


The minute electromagnetic coil and metal pole which write and read back magnetic patterns on the disk. Also known as a read/write head. A drive with several disk surfaces or platters will have a separate head for each data surface. See also MR Head.




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HDA

Head Disk Assembly. For today's drives this corresponds to the hard disk without the PCB.

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