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The primary computer storage device, which spins, reads and writes one or more fixed disk platters. In practice, the terms "hard drive" and "hard disk" are used synonymously. Hard drives are the storage medium in desktop and laptop computers as well as all servers and mainframes throughout the world. They are also used in printers for storing fonts and print jobs as well as digital music players and a myriad of other portable and stationary computer-based devices. Although removable disks encased in cartridges use the same "hard" disk media and a similar drive technology, they are mostly called "removable drives" rather than hard drives.
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| Features include a built-in 160GB hard drive, dual password protection modes, DHP Dynamic hard drive partition technology, and the ability to load disc images to hard drive and rename the partition. The recent explosion of widely varying applications that rely on hard disk drives has led to the greatest diversification in hard drive design in the history of the industry. Should an internal hard drive failure occur, the bootable external hard drive can quickly replace the failed drive, or disaster recovery can be achieved by installing a bare hard drive and transferring data from the external drive to the new internal drive. |
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