Magnetic Disk

The magnetic disk is a round plate made of light alloys based on aluminum or, in rare cases, of ceramics or special glass with a cobalt layer put on their surface by a vacuum sputtering for giving magnetic properties to the disk. The technology of sputtering of a magnetic disk is similar to the one used for producing integrated microcircuits. The magnetic covering of a disk is a set of the smallest areas named domains that change a magnetization vector under the influence of the external magnetic field created by magnetic heads at a data recording. After the termination of an external field force on the disk, the zones of residual magnetization are being formed on the disk surface. That is the way the information recorded to the disk is being preserved. Areas of residual magnetization that appeared to be opposite to a magnetic head during the rotation of the drive direct electromotive force in the head, thus enabling reading the information back. Several plates of the magnetic disks planted on a spindle motor shaft can be set inside the HDD. The number of working surfaces, accordingly, is twice more (two per disk).