The Clean Room
You probably want to know what a clean room is and why we may need to use it. Technology has advanced so far that the assembly of many delicate components has to take place in completely clean conditions – that is to say that there must be absolutely no risk of a component being contaminated by even a single microscopic speck of dust. In order to achieve this assembly takes place in a perfectly clean environment. Air pressure is maintained in such a way that if the airlock should be broken air will only flow out and not into the room. Small components such as read/write heads in a hard drive will find contamination if there is dust present. By the same token, if we have to open a hard drive it has to be done in a clean room in order to prevent any contamination from dust or other contaminants.
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