HARD DISK

Erick Basabe y Norkys Chourio

 WHAT IS A
HARD DRIVE?

In computing, hard disk drive or hard

disk drive (in English: hard disk drive,
HDD) is a data storage device that
uses a magnetic recording system to
store and retrieve digital files.
 CREATION
It was invented by Reynold Johnson in 1956
when he worked for the IBM company. Over
the years, the prices of hard drives have
decreased, while their capacity has
multiplied, making them the main secondary
storage option for personal computers, since
their appearance in the 1960s.

Hard drives have maintained their dominant position thanks to

constant increases in recording density, which has kept pace with
secondary storage needs.
HOW IT IS
COMPOSED?
It is made up of one or more rigid plates or
disks, covered with magnetic material and
joined by the same shaft that rotates at high
speed inside a sealed metal box. On each
plate, and on each of its faces, there is a
reading/writing head that floats on a thin sheet
of air generated by the rotation of the disks.
Allows random access to data, meaning that blocks of data can be
stored or retrieved in any order and not just sequentially. Hard drives
are a type of non-volatile memory, retaining stored data even when
powered off.
CLASSIFICATION

PATA SATA SCSI SSD

They were the first They have replaced These are similar to These are solid state
types of hard drives PATA drives in desktop IDE drives but use the drives that have no
and used the interface and laptop computers. small computer system moving parts and use
standard They use the serial ATA interface. flash memory to store
Parallel ATA. interface standard. data