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What are Hard drives made of?

What are the materials or what is a hard drive made of?

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Do you mean the actual platters inside the drive? if so they are either metal or glass with a foil coating. It depends on the drive.
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aluminium, glass, ceramic
A typical HDD design consists of a spindle that holds one or more flat circular disks called platters, onto which the data is recorded. The platters are made from a non-magnetic material, usually aluminum alloy or glass, and are coated with a thin layer of magnetic material, typically 10–20 nm in thickness , for reference, standard copy paper is 0.07–0.18 millimetre (70,000–180,000 nm) thick with an outer layer of carbon for protection. Older disks used iron oxide as the magnetic material, but current disks use a cobalt-based alloy.

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