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-An [Acronym] for Hard Disk Drive. The component that permamently
stores programs and files while the computer is off.
+An [Acronym] for Hard Disk Drive. The component that permanently
stores programs and files while the computer is off.
-A typical cheap [IDE] hard disk drive these days might cost around NZ$200
for 40-60 Gigabytes(Gibibytes?) of data.
-
-This photo is of
a disk platter used at StanfordUniversity in the 1960s:
-
-[http://www.wlug.org.nz/~jrm/images/platter-lowres.jpg]
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-I put a $1 note in the lower-right corner to give you an idea of the platter's size. This platter could store 4 megabytes of data. The black mark around it is from a disk head crash (!!)
.
+See HardDisk
for a fuller explanation
.
