Definition: Head Actuator


A motor that moves the head stack assembly in a hard drive to align read/write heads with magnetic tracks on the disks.




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Bus

The path that carries data between the computer (microprocessor) and peripheral devices. An IDE interface cable and a SCSI cable are both examples of a bus.

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