Virtual disk and virtual drive are software components that emulate an actual disk storage device. Virtual disks and virtual drives are common components...

a virtual disk image of optical media or a hard disk drive is typically done to make the content available to one or more virtual machines. Virtual machines...

virtual hard disks. VirtualBox emulates IDE (PIIX4 and ICH6 controllers), SCSI, SATA (ICH8M controller), and SAS controllers, to which hard drives can be attached...

that emulates a disk drive such as a hard disk drive or optical disk drive (see comparison of disc image software) Data Data virtualization: the presentation...

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical...

name was Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. New features in R2 SP1 include Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, SMP (but...

more (costly) hardware resources such as CPUs, and hard drives. Although hardware is consolidated in virtual environments, typically OSs are not. Instead...

typically use special hardware and software along with disk drives in order to provide very fast and reliable storage for computing and data processing. Storage...

physical location on the hard drive, as is the case with traditional folders, but can be in any location. In fact, files in a virtual folder do not even need...

snapshot. The undo disk file (.vud) incrementally stores changes made by the virtual machine compared to the main Virtual hard disk drive (VHD) image, which...

if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage). RAM drives provide high-performance temporary storage for demanding tasks and protect non-volatile...

VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware...

include logical disk, minidisk, portions, pseudo-disk, section, slice and virtual drive. One of the earliest such segmentation of a disk drive was IBM's 1966...

[citation needed] Virtual machines frequently use virtual disks for their storage; in a very simple example, a 10-gigabyte hard disk drive is simulated with...

random-access memory) and secondary storage is called "disk" (a shorthand for hard disk drive, drum memory or solid-state drive, etc.), but as with many...

Disk cloning is the process of duplicating all data on a digital storage drive, such as a hard disk or solid state drive, using hardware or software techniques...

moved (paged out) to secondary storage, typically to a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD). When a process requests access to data in its memory...

17 NES, SNES, N64, Sega Mega Drive and TurboGrafx titles were available at launch on the Virtual Console in Europe and 11 titles for the Oceanic region...

compressed to auxiliary storage such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD). In both cases the virtual memory range, whose contents has been compressed...

Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash...

security, size and more. Files systems have been developed for many types of storage devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), magnetic...

storage virtualization, as servers connected to storage systems such as NAS or SAN in addition to, or instead of, on-board hard disk drives. Server virtualization...

and sharing physical disk drives and USB devices with a virtual machine. It can simulate disk drives; an ISO image file can be mounted as a virtual optical...

inexpensive disks" or "redundant array of independent disks") is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components...

ZumoDrive virtual disk that was then synced to the web and the users' other computers and hand-held devices. Files in the ZumoDrive virtual disk could...

operating system. A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as a hard disk drive, is referred to as paging or swapping. Computer memory...

A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device...

A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information...

real machine". System virtual machine advantages: Multiple OS environments can co-exist on the same primary hard drive, with a virtual partition that allows...

qed, .qcow, .cow) VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) Virtual PC Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Virtual VFAT VMware Virtual Machine Disk (.vmdk) Raw images...