platter

A digitised image is an arrangement of bits on a platter or a wire.

They had the world given to them on a platter in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Instead they squandered everything they had.

As the linear bit density increases, the read rate must increase for a constant RPM and platter size.

Give them a sharp twist along the platter's rotational access, and if you were lucky move the heads to a space they wouldn't bind to.

'When a request comes in one is just given direct access to the data, everything on a silver platter.

This is the time for damage-control PR that they were handed on a platter by the intelligence oversight committee.

I was being handed to B on a silver platter, a pre-vetted, pre-trained, instantly-productive candidate.

I also resurrected a couple of seized hard drives by opening the case and spinning up the platter with my finger, much to the shock and dismay of onlookers.

So it's always in the contractors interest to capture and execute changes, while it's the government is trying to get the world delivered to them on a platter for five bucks.

A system about which the review panel said that "If they gave us the system on a silver platter, the first thing we'd have to do is cancel it, because we couldn't afford the ongoing costs.

Obama has talked a good game, but has done absolutely nothing, even when opportunities to stand up for citizens' rights were presented to him on a silver platter.

Think of the air as a 'spring' which is holding the head at a precise distance above the platter, the head is pushing "down" and the spring is pushing "up", so if the head is too far away its down force is stronger and it moves closer, if the head is too close the air's "up" force is stronger so it moves away.