Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk. The recording employs various electronic, magnetic...

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...

floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...

devices. Storage consists of storage devices and their media not directly accessible by the CPU (secondary or tertiary storage), typically hard disk drives...

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...

A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cache memory...

is a data storage media that is designed to be readily inserted and removed from a system. Most early removable media, such as floppy disks and optical...

In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. For most disks, each sector stores a fixed amount of...

on syncing data between different devices. Yandex.Disk was launched in English in June 2012. Storage — users can upload and save files. There are no restrictions...

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device. Traditionally...

interface between the disk drive and the bus connecting it to the rest of the system. Early disk controllers were identified by their storage methods and data...

disk drive. The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed Random Access Storage but today known as secondary storage...

Disaggregated storage Distributed block storage Disk drive performance characteristics Disk storage Electronic quantum holography External storage Format war...

application, it may be important for a disk drive to go to great lengths to successfully read a problematic storage block, even if it takes several seconds...

computer data storage devices (e.g. disk storage, hard disk drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and magnetic tape), and early computer storage methods such...

is accessed using one or more read/write heads. Magnetic storage media, primarily hard disks, are widely used to store computer data as well as audio...

have been described as mass storage include tape libraries, RAID systems, and a variety of computer drives such as hard disk drives (HDDs), magnetic tape...

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

Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions...

speeds and higher endurance through different data storage mechanisms. Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs have no moving parts, allowing...

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

corporate storage and retrieval. Optical libraries, such as the Hewlett Packard 40XT, were created to automate loading and storing of the disks. A self-contained...

A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and...

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

A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that resides on and can use a disk storage device, such as a floppy disk, hard disk drive...

In block storage devices such as hard disk drives, interleaving is a technique used to improve slow system performance by putting data accessed sequentially...

REV is a removable hard disk storage system from Iomega, released in 2004. The small removable disks store 35, 70, or 120 gigabytes (GB) and are hard-drive...

and accessed elsewhere. Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc), compact flash...

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...

commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage. The system was publicly announced on September...