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Imagine a plane flying 5 yards above the ground on autopilot at 600 miles per hour .... A scary thought, isn't it? You would neither want to be a passenger in that plane, nor would you care to be anywhere near its path. What is going on inside your hard drive is pretty much the same. Thankfully nobody lives inside that hazardous environment who might come to harm during such a stunt. But a crash of the plane that cruises above the precious data stored on your hard disk still comes at a high price. A hard drive typically consists of a stack of magnetic disks inside a sealed box. Each disk h...
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