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hard disk drive
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hard disk drive

See hard disk.

(storage)hard disk drive - (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.


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It is clear that other top-tier and mid-tier manufacturers will soon be coming to market with other compliant hard-disk archive systems.
AIT Tape: best long-term replacement for archival Magneto-Optical by Vining, Richard / Computer Technology Review
Known technically as "antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media," the new multilayer coating is expected to permit hard-disk drives to store 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of disk area by 2003.
IBM'S 'PIXIE DUST 'BREAKTHROUGH TO QUADRUPLE DISK DRIVE DENSITY by EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Why this is so: In the pre-Windows 98 FAT16 format, the minimum hard-disk storage unit (called a cluster) for even the smallest file is 32 kilobytes (Kb).
Move to Windows 98 - or skip to NT? by Zarowin, Stanley / Journal of Accountancy
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