A hard disk drive platter or hard disk is the circular magnetic disk on which digital data is stored in a hard disk drive. The rigid nature of the platters...

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer...

A disk read-and-write head is the small part of a disk drive that moves above the disk platter and transforms the platter's magnetic field into electric...

5-inch disk platter. First commercial hard drive with platters made from glass. 1991 – IBM 0663 "Corsair" – 1,004 megabytes, eight 3.5-inch disks; first...

for 2.5-inch. The disk drive size, such as 3.5-inch, is usually refers to the diameter of the disk platters. IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used...

Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped...

early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head...

opening a hard disk drive in a normal environment can allow airborne dust to settle on the platter and become caught between the platter and the read/write...

Hard disk drive platter, part of a computer hard drive A platter lift, a mechanized system for pulling skiers and snowboarders uphill The Platters, an...

A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface...

physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. Modern hard disk drives come with 8 to 256 MiB of such memory, and solid-state drives come...

standard hard drive, the REV system uses a flying head to read and write data to a spinning platter. The removable disks contained the platter, spindle...

magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD)...

more non-removable rigid platters; the floppy disk drive (FDD) and its removable floppy disk; and various optical disc drives (ODD) and associated optical...

The Jaz drive is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002. Following the success of the Iomega Zip drive, which...

combines a faster storage medium such as solid-state drive (SSD) with a higher-capacity hard disk drive (HDD). The intent is adding some of the speed of SSDs...

Look up hard drive, harddrive, or hard disk drive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hard disk drive is a computer storage device containing rigid...

is the distance between the disk read/write head on a hard disk drive and the platter. The first commercial hard-disk drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC (1956),...

marketplace. Since about 2005, the technology has come into use for hard disk drives. Hard disk technology with longitudinal recording has an estimated limit...

manufacturing optical products such as photomasks, photomask blanks and hard disk drive platters, contact lenses and eyeglass lenses for the health-care market...

capacity of a disk drive is the product of sector size, sectors per track, tracks per side and sides (which in hard disk drives with multiple platters can be...

Disk cache may refer to: Disk buffer, the small amount of RAM embedded on a hard disk drive, used to store the data going to and coming from the disk...

The ST3000DM001 was a hard disk drive released by Seagate Technology in 2011 as part of the Seagate Barracuda series. It has a capacity of 3 terabytes...

endurance through different data storage mechanisms. Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs have no moving parts, allowing them to deliver faster...

of hard disk platters (circular, rigid discs coated with a magnetic data storage surface). A disk pack is the core component of a hard disk drive. In...

135 Drive is a 3.5" removable-platter hard disk drive. It was introduced by SyQuest Technology in 1995. It had a maximum capacity of 135 MB per disk. A...

in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability...

and an RDX dock. RDX cartridges are shock-proof 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drives and are advertised to sustain a 1 meter (39 in) drop onto a concrete...

Storage Module Drive (SMD) is a family of storage devices (hard disk drives) that were first shipped by Control Data Corporation in December 1973 as the...