looking for a diagram of the distance of a HDD head from platter

[yerk5]

Does anyone have any links to a diagram visually showing the
comparison of the distance of a hard drive read/write head from the
platter to a cross-section of a human hair. I had seen this somewhere
before but despite my best googling, I cant locate one now. Seeking
one for a report I'm working on.

TIA!

 

[RobV]

Does anyone have any links to a diagram visually showing the
comparison of the distance of a hard drive read/write head from the
platter to a cross-section of a human hair. I had seen this somewhere
before but despite my best googling, I cant locate one now. Seeking
one for a report I'm working on.

TIA!

Used Google, typed in "disk head flying distance" and this was 4th in
the list. Just scroll down a bit. Maybe you need a remedial course in
Googling. ;-)

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/heads/opHeight.html

 

[ddrguy]

Ah, I knew I could count on the crowd to flame no matter the question.
Anyway, I was searching for the diagram. That's a little harder to
find than the information itself. I found info on the distance on
dozens of sites right away, but how would you count on/guarantee one
that has a diagram of such with the hair comparison? Without just
extensive trial and error link following? Adding "diagram" or "figure"
to the search doesn't really help much at all, when you're searching
pages on hard drives. You get every other diagram, cross section,
photo, etc etc of a hard drive, when I was looking for this very
specific image.

Anyway, thanks.

 

[RobV]

Ah, I knew I could count on the crowd to flame no matter the question.

Ah, and you are predictably thin skinned enough to think it's a flame.
Do you know what the " ;-) " means? Apparently not.

[snip]

 

[CBFalconer]

Ah, and you are predictably thin skinned enough to think it's a
flame. Do you know what the " ;-) " means? Apparently not.

He apparently also has difficulties avoiding top-posting.

Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
<http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/> (taming google)
<http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/> (newusers)