The heads move to this location on the inner cylinders following a Park command. User data is not stored at this location.

A special part of the magnetic hard disk in the shape of a narrow circular band used for landing a slider after powering a drive down. The rest of the disk is typically referred to as the data zone. This part of the disk is usually specially textured.

The non-data area set-aside on a hard drive platter for the heads to rest when the system powers down.

The heads move to this location on the inner portion of the disk when commanded, or when the power has been turned off. User data is not stored in this area of the disk.

A safe non-data area on a hard disk for parking read/write head.

A non-data area on the disk's inner cylinder where the heads can rest when the power is off.

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.

The Cylinder at which the heads are parked, which will least likely cause damage to recorded data if shock or vibration causes the heads to contact the disk surface.

Ideally, the only area of a hard disk's surface that actually touches the read/write lead. naannoo tuqa dubisaa/bareessaa View

Unused track on disk surface on which the read/write heads can land when power is shut off. This is where the head is parked in order to decrease damage to disk when computer is shut down.