Definition: Platter


An actual metal (or other rigid material) disk that is mounted inside a fixed-disk drive. Many drives consist of multiple platters mounted on the spindle to provide more data storage surfaces. Each platter may use one or both surfaces to store data.




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Master

The first drive in a dual drive combination. A master drive by itself (with no slave) is called a single drive. See slave.

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