Definition: Physical damage


Damage to the physical unit. For a hard drive this may be damage to the electronics, the mechanics or the media itself.




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Performs the data encoding and conversions the drive needs to write computer generated information onto a magnetic medium and then read that information back with a high degree of accuracy.

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