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disk cartridge

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disk cartridge
A removable disk module that contains a single hard disk platter or a floppy disk. See cartridge.

Old and New Disk Cartridges
Older cartridges (right) came in a variety of sizes as large as 16" in diameter. Today's cartridges use smaller 5.25" (left) and 3.5" form factors.

disk cartridge [′disk ‚kär·trij]
(computer science)
A removable module that contains a single magnetic disk platter which remains attached to the housing when placed into the disk drive.


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Because the RDX disk cartridge uses the same hard disk drives found in notebook computers, the maximum capacity of an individual RDX cartridge will continue to increase at the same rate - doubling approximately every 18 months.
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Another issue with removable disk cartridges is that manual interaction and tracking is still involved; as with tape libraries, this remains the biggest source of potential recovery error.
 
 
 
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