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samsc
16-03-2004, 04:53 PM
How it works has some good pictures,

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk6.htm

the article is quite long and has a few pages.
A hard disc has a serial of rotation plates, data is stored on the plates and read using an arm which swings across the drive.