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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's content – typically stored in a file on another storage device. Traditionally, a disk image was relatively...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

electromagnetic interference than floppy disks, and are unharmed by surface scratches (unlike CDs). However, as with any flash storage, data loss from bit leaking...

The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats...

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...

all storage media (hard disk, optical disk, tape, etc.) in the enterprise as a single pool of storage." A "storage system" is also known as a storage array...

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...

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...

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...

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

data storage. It is contrasted with database management systems that employ a disk storage mechanism. In-memory databases are faster than disk-optimized...

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...

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

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...

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

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...