Hard Drives: How they work

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Hard Drive with its cover on.

All your files and programs are stored here....things like your Operating System,  word processing application, all your data, and text (writing), pictures, and music files.

A hard drive can both read and write information. A hard drive is not as fast as RAM. But a hard drive sabes or stores information, so when you turn off your computer (stop the electricity going to it) your information is not lost.

This is a picture of a Hard Drive with its cover off so you can see the inside. Notice that it looks a little like a CD in a CD player.

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