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The top of the drive. |
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The bottom of the drive/control board. |
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The top of the control board. |
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The foam padding between the drive casing and the control board. |
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The drive casing with the control board removed. |
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This is the inside of the drive. Note that the disc platters look black because they are a silver mirrored surface and the inside of my scanner is black. |
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The very interesting insde view of the top cover. |
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The top view of the read/write head assembly |
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The bottom view of the read/write head assembly |
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The most vital parts of a disc drive. The head travel stops. *grin* |
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Just in case you were not satisfied only seeing the top of the head stops. Here is a bottom view |
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With the disc platters removed, one can see the coils of the brushless DC motor. The motor is very similar to the type one would find in a CPU fan |
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It would seem that the disc [s]platters are made of a coated glass. They couldn't quite withstand a three foot drop to a concreate floor initialy accelerated by a hammer & punch *oops* |