Hard Drive

Categories: Hard Drives | Computers
    • Non-volatile storage, stores even when powered down
    • Data stored on spinning platter
    • Records data as binary digits, 0 or 1
    • A 1 terabyte hard drive will store approximately 1 trillion bytes, although operating systems will generally only make 90-95% of this available.
  • Data Storage

    A hard drive is a device for long-term data storage. It features a spinning platter upon which data is digitally encoded. Massive amounts of data can be stored on modern hard drives, exceeding 1 TB of capacity. Hard drives typically last 5-10 years, upon which they often fail completely, causing data loss. Due to this multiple hard drive configurations are built with RAID, to provide fail-over and to help prevent data loss.

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