On 2/21/10 9:57 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:


Im wondering how plastic platters hold data as hard drives are a
magnetic based storage medium o.O

Metal hard drive platters are aluminum (non-magnetic). In either case they use a sputtered magnetic metal coating.

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