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boot drive

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boot drive

The disk drive that contains the operating system. Most personal computers are configured to look for the OS in the CD-ROM drive first and then the hard disk. In the past, the floppy drive was first on the list. See bootable disk and BIOS.



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Relocating the SCSI boot drives from the server blades onto a shared storage blade brings a new level of efficiency to server blade architecture and further enhances the size, performance and scaling attributes in these systems.
Four drives within the X-SPAND can be isolated as high performance media storage and the G5 internal SATA drive as the boot drive.
I'm keeping the 3GB drive for backups and as a buffer when I bum CDs and, anyhow, a 3GB C: boot drive was all I needed until I got Microsoft Office.
 
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