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hard disk
a data storage device in which data is stored on a magnetic disk embodied in a COMPUTER. Most hard disks can store large amounts of data, such as 20 megabytes of numbers or letters.Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson
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The access time is somewhat slower than a
fixed disk at somewhere between 240-500 milliseconds.
In the second situation, the maker of a
fixed disk drive for a personal computer chose to subcontract the manufacturing to a company whose factories were adept at precision, high-volume, quick ramp-up products-unlike the company's main factories that were experienced in lower volume minicomputer mass storage products.
Today, it's desirable and justifiable to have one
fixed disk and one removable disk.
To illustrate, almost all of the most common viruses are boot sector viruses - that is, they can only infect the
fixed disk of a computer when that machine is booted from an infected diskette.
Fixed disk does have its limitations with long-term data.
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