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...

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...

A disk read-and-write head is the small part of a disk drive that moves above the disk platter and transforms the platter's magnetic field into electric...

5-inch disk platter. First commercial hard drive with platters made from glass. 1991 – IBM 0663 "Corsair" – 1,004 megabytes, eight 3.5-inch disks; first...

for 2.5-inch. The disk drive size, such as 3.5-inch, is usually refers to the diameter of the disk platters. IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used...

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

physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. Modern hard disk drives come with 8 to 256 MiB of such memory, and solid-state drives come...

Hard disk drive platter, part of a computer hard drive A platter lift, a mechanized system for pulling skiers and snowboarders uphill The Platters, an...

Disk 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...

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...

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

The Jaz drive is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002. Following the success of the Iomega Zip drive, which...

changes to the disk's surface layer. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD), containing...

standard hard drive, the REV system uses a flying head to read and write data to a spinning platter. The removable disks contained the platter, spindle...

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 (FDD)...

opening a hard disk drive in a normal environment can allow airborne dust to settle on the platter and become caught between the platter and the read/write...

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...

in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability...

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

ingots, foils), electronics (semiconductors, ceramic materials, hard disk drive platters), chemicals (industrial gases, ammonia, agrochemicals), and inorganic...

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

135 Drive is a 3.5" removable-platter hard disk drive. It was introduced by SyQuest Technology in 1995. It had a maximum capacity of 135 MB per disk. A...

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...

early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head...

capacity of a disk drive is the product of sector size, sectors per track, tracks per side and sides (which in hard disk drives with multiple platters can be...

on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over...

of hard disk platters (circular, rigid discs coated with a magnetic data storage surface). A disk pack is the core component of a hard disk drive. In...

The software then tells the hard disk drive to unload its heads to prevent them from coming in contact with the platters, thus potentially preventing...

disk can store 1 GB of data. As a removable-disk hard drive, it contains a solid hard disk platter on which the data is stored. When the SparQ drive was...

(361.9 mm) deep, and were used for hard disk drives and floppy disk drives. This form factor is obsolete. 5.25-inch drive bays are divided into two height...