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2. External storage - Wikipedia

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   Today storage devices may be internal or external to a computer system. In the 1950s, introduction of magnetic tapes and hard disk drives allowed for mass external storage of information, which played the key part of the computer revolution. [6] Initially all external storage, tape and hard disk drives are today available as both internal and ...

3. Disk storage - Wikipedia

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   Disk storage is now used in both computer storage and consumer electronic storage, e.g., audio CDs and video discs (VCD, DVD and Blu-ray). Data on modern disks is stored in fixed length blocks, usually called sectors and varying in length from a few hundred to many thousands of bytes. Gross disk drive capacity is simply the number of disk ...

4. Computer data storage - Wikipedia

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   Robotic storage is used for backups, and for high-capacity archives in imaging, medical, and video industries. Hierarchical storage management is a most known archiving strategy of automatically migrating long-unused files from fast hard disk storage to libraries or jukeboxes.

5. 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.

6. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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   The commercial usage of hard disk drives (HDD) began in 1957, with the shipment of a production IBM 305 RAMAC system including IBM Model 350 disk storage. [4] US Patent 3,503,060 issued March 24, 1970, and arising from the IBM RAMAC program is generally considered to be the fundamental patent for disk drives. [5]

7. Disk enclosure - Wikipedia

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   An external hard drive enclosure that uses a 2.5-in drive and a USB connection for power and transfer. Key benefits to using external disk enclosures include: Adding additional storage space and media types to small form factor and laptop computers, as well as sealed embedded systems such as digital video recorders [1] and video game consoles. [2]

8. Direct-attached storage - Wikipedia

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   Direct-attached storage (DAS) is digital storage directly attached to the computer accessing it, as opposed to storage accessed over a computer network (i.e. network-attached storage). DAS consists of one or more storage units such as hard drives , solid-state drives , optical disc drives within an external enclosure .

9. List of solid-state drive manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Formerly, but this company has exited the storage business. No No Intel [13] United States No Sold its NAND flash memory and SSD businesses to SK Hynix. Intel has terminated its Optane line of memory. Sold its NAND flash memory and SSD businesses to SK Hynix. Intel has terminated its Optane line of SSDs. No