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...
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Drive Hard (originally titled Hard Drive) is a 2014 Australian direct-to-video action buddy film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and written by Chad...
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engineers at IBM's San Jose California laboratory invented the hard disk drive. The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed...
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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...
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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...
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100 TB available in 2018[update], and 32 TB for 2.5-inch. IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used a stack of fifty 24-inch platters and was of a size...
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A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer...
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Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE; described before the introduction...
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Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped...
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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...
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Disk enclosure (redirect from USB Hard Drive)
power hard disk drives or solid state drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures...
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Burn The Hard Drive is the second EP by British musician Jade Bird. The EP was released on April 15, 2024. The EP is about Bird's split from her fiancée...
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Hard Drive (stylized in all caps) is an American satirical video game news website co-founded in 2017 by the editors of The Hard Times. Due to their similar...
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Disk controller (redirect from Hard drive controller)
to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. It also provides an interface between the disk drive and the bus connecting...
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hardware, active hard-drive protection refers to technology that attempts to avoid or reduce mechanical damage to hard disk drives by preparing the disk...
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in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability...
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Disk cache (redirect from Hard drive cache)
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 platters...
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Adapted (FATA) or FC-ATA is a type of computer hard disk drive. FATA is simply a low cost ATA or SATA disk drive equipped with a small external converter,...
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2011 Thailand floods (redirect from 2011 hard disk drive crisis)
affected regional automobile production and caused a global shortage of hard disk drives which lasted throughout 2012. The World Bank's estimate for this disaster...
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Disk partitioning (redirect from Hard disk drive partition)
its CP-67 operating system of minidisk as a separate segment of a hard disk drive. With DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2, a common practice is to use...
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A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface...
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1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM and...
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The most widespread standard for configuring multiple hard disk drives is RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks), which comes in a number...
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Danni Ashe (redirect from Danni's Hard Drive)
dancer and web developer who is the founder and former CEO of Danni's Hard Drive, a popular adult web site from the 90's. She started her adult Internet...
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Drive a Hard Bargain is a 1957 Australian play by Oriel Gray. It won a one act play competition in 1957 by the South Street Society. Adjudicator Lindsay...
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Quantum Bigfoot (redirect from Bigfoot (hard drive))
standard form factor for hard drives. While most desktop hard drives at that time used a 3.5-inch physical format, Quantum Bigfoot drives used a larger 5.25-inch...
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Microdrive (redirect from CF hard drive)
Research Center in San Jose. He wanted to create a small form factor hard disk drive with high capacity storage that would be used for mobile devices, after...
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Parallel ATA (redirect from IDE hard drive)
compatible hard drives and CD or DVD drives. The connection is used for storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, optical disc drives, and...
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At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions...
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Hard Drive is an album by drummer Art Blakey with The Jazz Messengers recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Bethlehem label. Allmusic awarded...
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