Common Characteristics of Magnetic Storage Devices

All magnetic storage devices have the following characteristics in common:

  • Read/write heads use controlled electrical pulses to affect the magnetic structure of the media. Each disk surface has one read/write head, whereas double-sided media use two read/write heads (one per side).

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