disk drive
61Rigid disk drive — A magnetic media for storing computer data. The fact that the substrate of the disk is made from aluminium and that the disks are packed into airtight containers has earnt them the name of rigid . See also Winchester Disk …
62floppy disk drive — computer hardware that reads and writes to and from a floppy disk (removable external memory device) …
63Hard Disk Drive — main drive on a computer that reads and writes information by magnetic means, HDD) …
64Disk formatting — Formatting a hard drive using MS DOS Disk formatting is the process of preparing a hard disk drive or flexible disk medium for data storage. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems. The formatting… …
65Disk compression — A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility which compresses only specified files and which requires the user designate the files …
66Disk partitioning — GParted is a popular utility used for disk partitioning Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.… …
67Disk enclosure — A 3.5 USB/FireWire hard disk enclosure A disk enclosure is essentially a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures… …
68Disk editor — A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data (at character or hexadecimal, byte levels) on disk drives (e.g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks); as such, they are… …
69Disk image emulator — A disk image emulator is computer software designed to mount a disk image, usually of a CD or DVD, from a local hard drive or USB flash drive. The mounting is usually done by creating a virtual drive on the system, that to the operating system… …
70Disk sector — Figure 1. Disk structures: (A) Track (B) Geometrical sector (C) Track sector (D) Cluster In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of user data.… …
