Definition: platter: A round magnetic plate that makes up part of a hard drive. Hard drives generally have several platters and require a read/write head for each side of the platter.
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Source: Redhat-9-Glossary / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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