Definition: Landing Zone


The designated radial zone of the disk, usually at the inner part of the disk, where the heads are stored to avoid contact with the data cylinders when power to the drive is off.




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HDA

Head Disk Assembly. For today's drives this corresponds to the hard disk without the PCB.

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