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2. Computer case - Wikipedia

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   The power supply is on the bottom rear. A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, is the enclosure that contains most of the hardware of a personal computer. The components housed inside the case (such as the CPU, motherboard, memory, mass storage devices, power supply unit and various expansion cards) are referred as the internal ...

3. Disk enclosure - Wikipedia

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   Disk enclosure. A disk enclosure is a specialized casing designed to hold and power hard disk drives or solid state drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures provide power to the drives therein and convert the data sent across their native data bus into a format usable by ...

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

6. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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   History of hard disk drives. Historical lowest retail price of computer memory and storage. In 1953, IBM recognized the immediate application for what it termed a "Random Access File" having high capacity and rapid random access at a relatively low cost. [1] After considering technologies such as wire matrices, rod arrays, drums, drum arrays ...

7. Non-RAID drive architectures - Wikipedia

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   Non-RAID drive architectures also exist, and are referred to by acronyms with tongue-in-cheek similarity to RAID: JBOD (derived from " just a bunch of disks "): described multiple hard disk drives operated as individual independent hard disk drives. SPAN or BIG: A method of combining the free space on multiple hard disk drives from "JBoD" to ...