Plated hard disk surfaces are actually harder and more scratch resistant than read-write heads are. The hard magnetic medium effectively protects itself from head crashes caused by contaminants and the drive's spinning up or down.
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Spin up
Synonyms for "spin up" (1 found)
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Verb(1 words)
drive the rotor faster
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The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.
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Near-synonyms: spool up; gin up
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We spun up a virtual server in the cloud to handle the additional load.
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