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hard disk drive, n the mechanism that controls the positioning, reading, and writing of the hard disk, which provides the largest amount of storage for the computer. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is clear that other top-tier and mid-tier manufacturers will soon be coming to market with other compliant hard-disk archive systems. Known technically as "antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media," the new multilayer coating is expected to permit hard-disk drives to store 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of disk area by 2003. Why this is so: In the pre-Windows 98 FAT16 format, the minimum hard-disk storage unit (called a cluster) for even the smallest file is 32 kilobytes (Kb). |
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