Talk:Hard disk drive platter

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Terminology[edit]

Regarding the examples of terminology misuse in the article:

they seem out of place in this article, as they talk mostly about disks not disk platters
they are technically nit-picky: common usage encompasses all of the definitions
they only admonish certain usages without specifying the correct usages
they read much like a word usage handbook and are out of place in wikipedia (?)

I think they should be removed - mimirzero 02:36 Sep 13, 2002 (UTC)

Does this even need its own entry? Hard disk seems an adequate place to discuss the makeup of platters. --Fubar Obfusco

I think this article does deserve a seperate existance from hard disk as it could be made about the technology of the platters themsevels ( materials, coatings, etc...) that would be too detailed to belong in the main hard disk article, but I don't have the knoweldge to write it yet. Astaroth5 12:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Platters[edit]

If you have many platters discs on the Hard Disk Drive then it can contain more data. But it also makes disk hotter, and makes it less reliable and more prone to break maybe. More discs also make it more loud maybe.

I completely disagree with the above comments this article has been extremely useful for my research- one of the few articles that i have found on the web that have been detailed enough..

reuse of hard disk platters[edit]

I am a craftsman looking to find information as to what the composition of a hard disk platter is. I have accumulated a small pile of platters as my computers have been replaced and wanted to know if there were toxic ingredients in the platters if I were to use them to manufacture some new item from my inventory. I imagine there are plenty of others wondering what can be used again. peter.cohen@yale.edu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.132.112.157 (talk) 15:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Needs rewriting[edit]

This is a topic that deserves its own page, but it ought to be rewritten and expanded. Also, it might be plagiarized: http://www.acsdata.com/hard-disk-platters.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Turingwins (talk • contribs) 15:22, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, I thought the same thing and looked into it; it's not an outright copy-paste; some paragraphs seem similar, but they are all rephrased.

The earliest copy that archive.org has of this page is from 2011 July, but other pages that link to it, date back further. This page, for example, introduced a link to the "hard-disk-platters.htm" around January 2009 -- the page looked very different in its previous snapshot from October 2008.

As for this Wikipedia article, the last big edit was in 2006 September; since then, most edits have been simply small tweaks and reorganization (diff between 2006...2015 -- to see how little has actually changed, use the wikiEdDiff tool).

So in conclusion, it's much more likely that acsdata.com copied from Wikipedia, no problem for us. And it has that "shady website" feel as well. -- intgr [talk] 20:34, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Substrate seems wrong[edit]

The article says that "Platters are typically made using an aluminium or glass and ceramic substrate."

I have seen several hard drives disposed of in the same way John McLane and Zeus Carver had to Die Hard, i.e. With A Vengeance. All the desktop hard drive platters I have seen will stop .38 Special and some 9mm. I doubt they were ceramic or even aluminum. I smashed a laptop drive with a hammer and it was made of glass, however I don't think the use of "typically" is correct, or at least it needs a citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.170.233 (talk) 02:31, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]