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physical drive

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physical drive

Refers to the actual unit of hardware of a disk or tape drive. Contrast with logical 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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