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  2. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields , or suffering a sharp impact or ...

  3. HP 7935 - Wikipedia

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    HP 7935 HP-IB Interface. The 7935H had a HP-IB interface mounted in the rear. The drive's front panel had a key pad for running internal disc drive diagnostics, a LED character display, a load and unload button, and a lid opening button. The 7935G was a bundled package of three 7935H units at a reduced cost of $74,000.

  4. LightScribe - Wikipedia

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    It is not possible to replace a LightScribe label with a new design (as in erase the surface of the disc), but it is possible to add more content to a label that has already been burned. The center of every LightScribe disc has a unique code that, together with a sensor in the drive, allows the drive to know the precise rotational position of ...

  5. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    The SMD family became the predominant disk drive in the minicomputer market into the 1980s. Also in 1973, IBM introduced the IBM 3340 "Winchester" disk drive and the 3348 data module, the first significant commercial use of low mass and low load heads with lubricated platters and the last IBM disk drive with removable media. This technology and ...

  6. Microdrive - Wikipedia

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    The idea of the Microdrive was created by IBM researcher Timothy J. Reiley who was working at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose. He wanted to create a small form factor hard disk drive with high capacity storage that would be used for mobile devices, after working on a project to look at Micromechanics. [6]

  7. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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    On SCSI hard disk drives, the SCSI controller can directly control spin up and spin down of the drives. Some Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives support power-up in standby (PUIS): each drive does not spin up until the controller or system BIOS issues a specific command to do so. This allows the system to be set up to ...

  8. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    A: — Floppy disk drives, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ″ or 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 ″, and possibly other types of disk drives, if present. B: — Reserved for a second floppy drive (that was present on many PCs). C: — First hard disk drive partition. D: to Z: — Other disk partitions get labeled here. Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the next drive it ...

  9. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk [a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.