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physical drive

physical drive

[′fiz·i·kəl ¦drīv]
(computer science)
An operational hard disk, which may be formatted to include more than one logical drive.
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physical drive

Storage hardware. Contrast with logical drive.
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A retriever that has the best brainpower possible and happens to be backed by the physical drive to get the job done is a special thing indeed.
After holding the Barbs to another 3-and-out -- DeKalb only had 1 first down in the second half -- the Knights ran out the clock with a physical drive that Johnathan Alstott capped with a 5-yard run to convert a 4th-and-4 with 1:25 remaining.
Preservation: Opening the Physical Drive with Read Permissions.
The Rams opened the second half with Jean-Guillaume under center for a deliberate and physical drive that showed off not only the team's huge and talented offensive line, but also a deep stable of running backs.
Despite the physical drive of Nemanja Matic - what a signing he looks - Chelsea were decidedly shoddy.
The adapter can be used in RAID, Simple Volume or Physical Drive applications and performs at up to 6.6GB/s on sequential reads and up to 5.2GB/s on sequential writes (with RAID 0), more than doubling the performance of competing solutions.
With the addition of the Trend Micro products to its offering, Iomega said that it can now deliver virus protection and physical drive durability addressing most of the common concerns of consumers regarding the safety of their data stored on external portable or desktop hard drives.
Such files can get lost or corrupted for various reasons, from a computer virus to physical drive failure.
The seven SCSI drives attached to the array controller were configured as two physical drives. We used the first physical drive, comprised of two drives configured as a RAID 0 stripe set for maximum performance, for the installation of the operating system and all related files.
provides complete information of the hard drive status to prevent potential physical drive failure.
Some men describe it as a physical drive - a bit like scratching an itch.
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