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Landing Zone refers to the inner space of the hard disk where the read/write rests following a park command. It is the non-data area on the disk’s inner cylinder. The read/write head rests in the landing zone in only two situations. Firstly on account of park command and secondly, when power to the drive is off. Landing zone is provided in every hard drive to avoid unnecessary contact of read/write head with the platters thereby reducing the chances of data corruption.

Read/write head rests in the landing zone until it receives a command to make a move to many different addresses to perform data storage or retrieval task. In other words, landing zone is a rest room for the read/write heads.

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