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The piece of [Hardware] that stores your programs and data "permanently" - ie after the power goes off. You probably know what a hard disk is.
-Hard drives used to have capacity measured in [
MegaByte]
s -- these days it's in [
GigaByte]
s.
+Hard drives used to have capacity measured in MegaByte~
s -- these days it's in GigaByte~
s.
-A typical cheap [IDE] hard disk drive these days might cost around NZ$200 for 40-60 [
GibiByte]
s of data. [SCSI] drives are typically slightly more expensive.
+A typical cheap [IDE] hard disk drive these days might cost around NZ$200 for 40-60 GibiByte~
s of data. [SCSI] drives are typically slightly more expensive.
The standard method of measuring large amounts of data (in the mainstream media) appears to be ''[LibraryOfCongress|LOC]'' x ''n''.
To appreciate how far storage technology has come, look at the size of [a 4 megabyte disk platter | http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/images/platter-lowres.jpg?] used at StanfordUniversity in the 1960s; there a $1 note in the lower-right corner to give you an idea of the platter's size. The black mark around it is from a disk head crash (!!).
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* DrivePartitioning
* BackupNotes
* FileSystems
* Category:DiskNotes
-* [HowToUltraDMA]
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Part of CategoryHardware
