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what is magnetic storage

Magnetic Storage

It is most commonly used storage media because of its availability and price. The surfaces of these devices are coated with a magnetically sensitive material, like iron oxide, that reacts to a magnetic field.

Tracks and Sectors

When you format this magnetic disk, the disk creates a set of concentric rings, on each side of the disk. These concentric rings are called tracks. The type of disk governs the number of tracks required. A hard disk may have several hundred tracks on each side of each platter. Each track is a separate circle. The tracks are numbered from the outermost circle to the innermost, starting with 0.

magnetic-storage

Examples of Magnetic Storage. Floppy diskettes (almost obsolete now), hard disks and magnetic tape.

Diskettes contain a single thin disk, usually made of plastic. This disk is flexible and thus the name floppy disks. A diskette stores data on both sides of its disk which are numbered as side 0 and side 1. Each of these sides has its own read/write head.

Hard disks usually consists of multiple disks, called platters since they are made of a rigid material like aluminum. Subsequent sections will explain Hard Disk Storage in further details.

Magnetic recording is done using magnetic tape which are made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.

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