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29-Oct-2009, 06:05 PM #16
Oh ok, sounds like a space thing that they do with the platters then. I should do some research on the subject .
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Multiple platters are just to increase capacity by increasing the surface area of the magnetic media.
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30-Oct-2009, 12:48 PM #18
I did do a quick search on howstuff works and the way i am grasping it then is that the multiple platters as you stated increase the capacity by increasing density and whatever is written on one platter is bled to the other platters.
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Me, I think after reading all this that I am just going to hire a team of scribes to write everything down for me....
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