Definition: Thin Film


A type of coating deposited on a flat surface through a photolithographic process. Thin film is used on disk platters and read/write heads, as well as on the write element of MR heads.




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Adaptive Caching

A feature of hard disk drives that enables them to improve performance and throughput by adapting to the application being run.

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