And these mudbugs,as some call them, are about to become an even more important part of the region's seafood platters now that shrimp,oyster, and crab harvesting has been shut down in affected areas of the Gulf of Mexico.

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This machinery is so precise that a human hair couldn't even pass between the heads and spinning platters, yet it all works in terrific speeds.

这些设备是很紧密的以至于人的头发,都不能在头和旋转的磁盘之间通过，尽管如此，它的运行速度非常快。

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But in hard drives where we actually have these moving platters, here is in fact, how we get from electricity and magnetism to those zeros and ones.

但是在传统硬盘中我们确实有高速运转的磁盘，这就是事实，但问题是我们如何,把电磁信号转化为0和1的。

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Other signals move the read/write heads to read or write data on the platters.

其他的信号移动读写头,来到硬盘中去读或者写。

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Some of the signals control a motor which spins metal-coded platters.

一些信号控制一个用于,金属编码磁盘的旋转。

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Your data is actually stored on these platters.

你的数据实际上存储在这些磁盘中。

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