What exactly does a hardrive look like?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive

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Answer 2

They are a rectangle made of metal. Laptop ones are smaller than desktop ones.

At one end there is a power plug, some jumpers, and either a plug for a ribbon cable (older drives) or a 'SATA' plug (newer drives).

They don't look like much, but inside is a series of platters and heads that read and write to those platters using magnetism. Without hard drives, you wouldn't have much of a computer system.

Answer 3

It looks like a sealed metal container with a magnetic disk inside. There's a number of pictures of a hard disk drive on wikipedia:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk

Answer 4

Not much different than a CD except it is secured in place.

Take a look:

Hard Drive – what does it look like -
http://www.comptechdoc.org/hardware/pc/begin/hwharddrive.html

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=341-3470&cs=19&c=us&l=en

Answer 5

A small book but the insides are platters that look like cd's.

Answer 6

It looks like a record player.
http://images.smalldog.com/hw/WD_800bb_hardrive.jpg

Answer 7

If the road is unpaved, it is usually dusty. If paved, it appears blurry due to the bumpiness.

Answer 8

like a rectangle

Answer 9

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Answer 10

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=harddrive&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi