Definition: Head Actuator


A motor that moves the head stack assembly in a hard drive to align read/write heads with magnetic tracks on the disks.




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AT/ATA

Name of standard interface and protocol for hard drives. See also IDE. Advanced Technology Attachment is generally used as a synonym for EIDE, as is UltraATA.

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