Hard drive disassembly
How do hard disks work? This article completely disassembles a hard disk describing the function of each part.
Hard drive disassembly - overview
The purpose of this is to completely dismantle a hard disk drive, show the different components inside the drive and explain the functions of each part of the hard disk.
For these purposes, we have chosen a 320 GB Hitachi hard disk drive manufactured in December 2006. The photograph below shows the drive with its lid removed.
Kindly note that all of this work was done inside one of our clean air cabinets. Hard drives must not be opened outside a clean air environment, a single speck of dust is enough to cause a severe head crash.