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Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk. The recording employs various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to the disk's surface layer. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD), containing one or more non-removable rigid platters; the floppy disk drive (FDD) and its removable floppy disk; and various optical disc drives (ODD) and associated optical disc media.

(The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g. the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning in 1956 with the "IBM 350 disk storage unit".)

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Disk storage

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Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk. The recording employs various electronic, magnetic...

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Floppy disk

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floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...

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Hard disk drive

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A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk, is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

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Computer data storage

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devices. Storage consists of storage devices and their media not directly accessible by the CPU (secondary or tertiary storage), typically hard disk drives...

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History of IBM magnetic disk drives

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magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive...

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Disk array

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A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cache memory...

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Yandex Disk

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on syncing data between different devices. Yandex.Disk was launched in English in June 2012. Storage — users can upload and save files. There are no restrictions...

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History of hard disk drives

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disk drive. The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed Random Access Storage but today known as secondary storage...

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Data storage

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Disaggregated storage Distributed block storage Disk drive performance characteristics Disk storage Electronic quantum holography External storage Format war...

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Disk sector

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In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. For most disks, each sector stores a fixed amount of...

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Removable media

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is a data storage media that is designed to be readily inserted and removed from a system. Most early removable media, such as floppy disks and optical...

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Disk controller

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interface between the disk drive and the bus connecting it to the rest of the system. Early disk controllers were identified by their storage methods and data...

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History of the floppy disk

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A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and...

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Disk image

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A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device. Traditionally...

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Magnetic storage

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is accessed using one or more read/write heads. Magnetic storage media, primarily hard disks, are widely used to store computer data as well as audio...

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Disk operating system

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A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that resides on and can use a disk storage device, such as a floppy disk, hard disk drive...

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Disk pack

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Disk packs and disk cartridges were early forms of removable media for computer data storage, introduced in the 1960s. A disk pack is a layered grouping...

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RAID

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inexpensive disks" or "redundant array of independent disks") is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components...

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File system

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more. Files systems have been developed for many types of storage devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), magnetic tapes...

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Famicom Disk System

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proprietary floppy disks called "Disk Cards" for cheaper data storage and it adds a new high-fidelity sound channel for supporting Disk System games. Fundamentally...

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Disk partitioning

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Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions...

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Storage area network

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data storage devices, such as disk arrays and tape libraries from servers so that the devices appear to the operating system as direct-attached storage. A...

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Clustered file system

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spread data across multiple storage nodes, usually for redundancy or performance. A shared-disk file system uses a storage area network (SAN) to allow...

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Mass storage

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have been described as mass storage include tape libraries, RAID systems, and a variety of computer drives such as hard disk drives, magnetic tape drives...

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Backup

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a different storage medium—as in the disk-to-disk-to-tape capability of Enterprise client-server backup. High-capacity removable storage media such as...

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