half-height drive

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half-height drive

A 5.25" disk drive that takes up half the vertical space of first-generation drives in desktop computers. Measuring 1 5/8" in height, it is commonly used for 5.25" floppy disks and hard disks. Contrast with full-height drive.

half-height drive [¦haf ‚hīt ′drīv]

(computer science)

A personal-computer disk drive whose height is half that of earlier disk drives.

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