The pie chart shows weight contribu on of various components of the HDD. Motor base assembly (MBA) contributes 40% of the weight, followed by Media [18%], VCMA [16%], and Cover assembly [15%]. The remaining 11 % of the weight is from other components
Breakdown of Carbon Footprint by Life Cycle Stages2:
[71%] of climate change impacts are from Use phase, followed by Manufacturing phase [24%], Distribution phase [4.5%] and End-of-Life phase [<1%]. Use phase impacts are primarily attributable to energy consumed by the product during its useful life. Manufacturing impacts are driven by resource consumption during the product assembly & sub-assembly processes, distribution phase impacts are focused on transportation of the product from the manufacturing location to the customer location.
One terabyte (TB) is equal to one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less due to opera ng environment.
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