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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1994-06-17  |  6.4 MB  |  320x240  |  10fps  |  47 seconds
Transcription: The hard drive is where your PC stores most of its permanent data. To do that, the data travels from RAM along with software signals that tell the hard drive how to store that data. The hard drive circuits translate those signals into voltage fluctuations. These in turn control the hard drive's moving parts, some of the few moving parts left in the modern computer. Some of the signals control a motor which spins metal-coated platters. data is actually stored on these platters. Other signals move the read-write heads to read or write data on the platters. This machinery is so precise that a hum ...