disk drive
71drive — ▪ I. drive drive 1 [draɪv] verb drove PASTTENSE [drəʊv ǁ droʊv] driven PASTPART [ˈdrɪvn] driving PRESPART drive a hard bargain COMMERCE to …
72Disk buffer — Not to be confused with page cache. The disk buffer sits on the controller board of the hard drive. In computer storage, disk buffer (often ambiguously[citation needed] called disk cache …
73drive — drive1 [ draıv ] (past tense drove [ drouv ] ; past participle driven [ drıvn ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 control vehicle ▸ 2 provide power to move ▸ 3 push something to hit something else ▸ 4 force someone to leave ▸ 5 force someone into bad state ▸ 6 make …
74Disk IIc — The Disk IIc was a 5.25 inch floppy disk drive introduced by Apple Computer in 1984 styled for use alongside the Apple IIc personal computer. The disk port on the original IIc was only designed to control an external 5.25 disk drive, and as such …
75Disk operating system — For the family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform, see DOS. Disk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS, refers to an operating system software used in most …
76Disk space — The term disk space is an amount of computer storage space on random access memory devices, such as on a hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.[citation needed] Disk space units are commonly measured in large numbers of bytes, such as kilobytes,… …
77Disk controller — The disk controller is the circuit which enables the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. Early disk controllers were identified by their storage methods and data encoding. They were typically implemented… …
78Disk read-and-write head — A hard disk head and arm on a platter …
79drive — drive1 W1S1 [draıv] v past tense drove [drəuv US drouv] past participle driven [ˈdrıvən] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(vehicle)¦ 2¦(make somebody move)¦ 3¦(make somebody do something)¦ 4¦(make somebody/something be in a bad state)¦ 5¦(hit/push something into… …
80drive bay — bay. * * * n. Computing a space inside a computer in which a floppy disk, hard disk, or disk drive can be accommodated * * * ˈdrive bay 7 [drive bay] noun (computing) a space inside a computer for a ↑ …
