Definition: Fly Height


Distance between read/write head and the media surface whilst the motor is rotating (hard drive).




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Kilobyte (KB)

1024 bytes, although it often considered to be a unit of 1000 bytes. In the case of computer memory, which is partitioned into sizes that are a power of two, a kilobyte is equal to 2 10 or 1024 bytes.

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