2012-11-16 Hard Disk Head Pic

I’m messing around with some cheap macro lens adapters for my Nikon DSLR.  The pic is the hard drive head from a 20 GB Maxtor HDD.  I don’t see any dividing line between the two ‘poles’ of the magnet or whatever it is in the head.  I know that the heads use magnetoresistive technology but if it’s magneto- anything, it should have poles, right?  Anyway the pic came out reasonably well, considering the adapters cost only $13.00 plus shipping.  I put a +10 and a +4 together to get up really close, then I cropped the photo a lot.

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