The Bernoulli cartridge houses a flexible recording disk. This flexibility allows the drive to take advantage of the Bernoulli effect, which gives the drive its enhanced characteristics. In the Bernoulli drive, air is passed rapidly over the flexible recording disk. The disk, which normally droops away from the |read/write head|, is lifted by the reduced pressure above it. This allows the recording disk to come much closer to the head than with a |hard disk drive|.
