Winchester technology

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Winchester technology [′win·ches·tər tek′näl·ə·jē]

(computer science)

Innovations designed to achieve disks with up to 6 × 10⁸bytes per disk drive; the technology includes nonremovable or sealed disk packs, a read/write head that weighs only 0.25 gram and floats above the surface, magnetic orientation of iron oxide particles on the disk surface, and lubrication of the disk surface.

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