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

the failing drive can be replaced and no data is lost. Hard disk and other storage drives are subject to failures (see hard disk drive failure) which can...

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...

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...

Another scenario involves a drive-level failure, such as a compromised file system or drive partition, or a hard disk drive failure. In any of these cases...

to other 3 TB drives, for which Seagate faced a class-action lawsuit. This hard drive model has the highest failure rates of any hard disk.[citation needed]...

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

computing, disk failure usually refers to the failure of a disk-based storage device, including: Floppy disk failure Hard disk drive failure Fault-tolerant...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a computer hard disk drive-monitoring software for Windows, Linux and DOS operating systems. Hard Disk Sentinel was...

different names. Some hard-disk drives also include this technology, needing no cooperation from the system. Hard disk drive failure Head crash Sudden Motion...

widespread standard for configuring multiple hard disk drives is RAID (redundant array of inexpensive/independent disks), which comes in a number of standard...

hard drives are usually larger and heavier than flash drives; however, hard disks sometimes weigh less per unit of storage. Like flash drives, hard disks...

large reliable data stores from multiple general-purpose computer hard disk drives (HDDs). The most common types are RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring)...

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 technology...

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...

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

3½-inch floppy disks can still be used with an external USB floppy disk drive. USB drives for 5¼-inch, 8-inch, and other-size floppy disks are rare to non-existent...

facility helped make the creation of the drive possible. Due to the failure of the Kittyhawk, a 1.3-inch hard disk drive also created in 1992 by Hewlett Packard...

the drive is remapping its own bad sectors, software may not detect growing numbers of bad sectors until later stages of gradual hard-disk failure (which...

backups, to be used for recovery in the event of data corruption, hard disk drive failure, or malware infection. It replaces NTBackup, which has been part...

rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the...

fits between a computer and an IDE or SCSI hard drive, but with the advent of USB and SATA, forensic disk controllers supporting these newer technologies...

smallest hard disk drive in the world at the time of its launch. Despite its innovative design, the Kittyhawk was ultimately a commercial failure due to...

chkdsk, protection against data degradation, built-in handling of hard disk drive failure and redundancy, integration of RAID functionality, a switch to...

unit. For example, AFR is used to characterize the reliability of hard disk drives. The relationship between AFR and MTBF (in hours) is: A F R = 1 − e...

At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions...

of highly reliable mainframe disk drives known as single large expensive disk (SLED). Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred...

copy of every storage location of a device (i.e. every sector of a hard disk drive), but it is now common to only store allocated data to reduce storage...

that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by overwriting data onto all sectors of the...

The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Considered medium-to-high-capacity...