The technologies involved in building a HDD are truly interdisciplinary, including coding and signal processing, electromagnetics, materials science and engineering, magnetism, microfabrication, electronics, tribology, control systems, heat transfer, and so on. However, the scope of this paper will be limited to the magnetic aspect of data storage and retrieval mechanisms in a HDD.
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