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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.

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* Innovation of high-storage portable external hard disks

New Market Report: Global External Hard Disk Market 2016-2020

Hard Disks and Computer Systems are configured with four to six Data Safe Partitions depending on the purpose, size and configuration of the hard disk.

Ready-Drives Hard Disks Pre-Configured with TRON Computer Performance Solutions

The FreeAgent GoFlex's is no more expensive than most standard USB2 hard disks and the removable interface adapters are neat and well implemented.

United Kingdom : Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB USB 2.0

Demand for hard disks for use in computers and home digital electronics equipment is expected to increase considerably in the future, with the memory storage capacities of hard disk products to be boosted by further technological innovations, they said.

Showa Denko, Hoya to unify hard disk manufacturing, R&D operations

All data is continually replicated across the SAN, and should an individual SAN hard disk fail, it is swapped out and the replacement is automatically populated with data without the customer being affected.

IT news and products; 'Diskless' server technology

For some period to come, it will be the way to bring content to the car--even if there is a flash drive or hard disk." Looking out 10 years, he sees the optical media holding their own although there will be changes as WiFi- or WiMAX-based downloads become more pervasive.

Integrating electronics--now & in the future

Now to annotate P, Q, D0, D1, D2 and D3 in terms of disk array: let D0, D1, D2 and D3 stand for user data stored in different hard disks and P and Q represent the parity data used to protect the user data.

Improving data availability with RAID 6

They include extraordinarily sensitive read heads for hard disk drives and components of so-called spintronics circuits, which aim to exploit electrons' magnetic properties (SN: 7/17/04, p.

Magnetic bit boost: quantum rewiring for computer memories

Security company Pointsec Mobile Technologies has conducted a survey and found that access codes and log-in codes can be purchased on second-hand hard disks.

Company security can be breached using data stored on second hand hard disks claims Pointsec

These include silicon based dynamic and static random access memory (RAM), magnetic hard disk drives, optical disks (including write once read many [WORM], magneto/optic, CD-ROM, and DVD disk, and magnetic tape.

The digital tsunami: a perspective on data storage: to meet demands, organizations will need to increase today's storage offerings 10 times. But how will such dramatic increases be addressed by technology and systems in the next few years?

To address this issue, a master calibration sample was created by depositing a known mass of hydrocarbon molecules in a dilute solution on magnetic hard disk surfaces and allowing the solvent to evaporate slowly.

Measurement/calibration technique for nanometer scale average film thickness on atomically rough surfaces developed