A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk, is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

A hard disk drive platter or hard disk is the circular magnetic disk on which digital data is stored in a hard disk drive. The rigid nature of the platters...

Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE; described before the introduction...

engineers at IBM's San Jose California laboratory invented the hard disk drive. The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed...

A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer...

Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped...

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...

Since the invention of the floppy disk drive, various standardized form factors have been used in computing systems. Standardized form factors and interface...

its CP-67 operating system of minidisk as a separate segment of a hard disk drive. With DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2, a common practice is to use...

device; it is also called solid-state disk because it is frequently interfaced to a host system as a hard disk drive. An SSD is often used as secondary storage...