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Spindle

A post that holds a reel of magnetic tape or CDs. In the case of a hard disk drive as seen in the below picture, the spindle is what holds a hard disk drives platters.

Inside a computer hard disk drive

Also see: CD definitions, Hard disk drive definitions, Tape definitions

 

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