Hard Drive

- 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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- Hard disk drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
  Hard disk drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- Amazon.com: Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft ...
  
  Amazon.com: Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire: James Wallace, Jim Erickson: Books
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- HowStuffWorks "How Hard Disks Work"
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- Hard Drive/Hard Drive XL - Homepage
  
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- Western Digital Hard Drives
  
  Western Digital is a data storage pioneer and a longtime leader in the hard drive industry. Buy a WD? hard drive online.
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Hard Drive News
- Buffalo ships first USB 3.0 hard drive
  
  by Lance Whitney Buffalo Technology seems to have won the race as the first vendor to actually ship a USB 3.0 hard drive. The company announced Tuesday that ... (November 25, 2009)
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- Securely Wipe a Dead Hard Drive
  
  Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the manufacturer. Is there a way to first remove sensitive data? Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the ... (November 25, 2009)
  Washington Post
- HP Pavilion Elite E9120f: Nice Storage Specs, Underwhelming Performance
  
  The system's interior is so cluttered that inserting an additional hard drive into the system's free bay is a daunting challenge. ... (November 25, 2009)
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- BlueCross BlueShield Offers Security Protection for Stolen Hard Drive Victims
  
  BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee will offer free credit monitoring to some potential victims of a stolen hard drive case. The hard drives were taken in ... (November 24, 2009)
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Hard Drive Blogs
- Seagate's Barracuda XT hard drive - The Tech Report - Page 1
  
  Yes, that's Seagate's top-of-the-line Serial ATA hard drive. The XT couldn't possibly look more generic, and there's really nothing to differentiate it visually from a bottom-rung Barracuda. Style may not count for much in a product ... (November 24, 2009)
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- Cram Your Hard Drive With Sexorcists, Sextremists And Interstellar ...
  
  The original source for science-fictional sleaze, Something Weird Video, just launched a new video download service, letting you grab entire weird exploitation movies that your parents felt guilty sneaking out to watch. (November 25, 2009)
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- Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3 Hard Drive Packs USB 3.0 Interface
  
  Buffalo's new DriveStation HD-HXU3 external hard drive packs a super-speedy USB 3.0 interface...but you can still use it with USB ... (November 25, 2009)
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- Samsung Story Station Plus Hard Drive Adds eSATA
  
  Samsung's new Story Station Plus external hard drive pops up to a 2 TB capacity and adds an eSATA interface ... (November 25, 2009)
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Hard Drive Products and Merchandise
- Acer Aspire One 1.60 GHz Intel Atom N270 Netbook - $299.95
  
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- HP NB041UA G60-230US 16 in. 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 Laptop - $499.99
  
  Comparison shop for HP NB041UA G60-230US 16 in. 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 Laptop at BizRate. Compare stores & find low prices on Computers & Software. Read product revi...
  
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- Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34275 - $170.99
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- Iomega Prestige 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34270 - $99.99
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Mahalo Answers for Hard Drive
- Before I splurge on a Flip Ultra I need to get a portable hard drive. What do you recommend? 1 Answer
  
  Any known brand like Seagate, Iomega, Toshiba, etc. in the size you need, i.e. amount of data the device will hold and physical size, either 2.5" or 3.5" drive... read more
- I need an new internal hard drive for my old G4 desktop (M8493) - any cheap suggestions (this is for my 5 year old's computer) 1 Answer
  
  Here's some good ones: Parallel (probably what you have) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=533139&CatId=134 ... read more
- Anybody know where I can get a good cheap external hard drive? 1 Answer
  
  There are three online sources: - www.tigerdirect.com - www.newegg.com - www.microcenter.com However, I'd suggest you consider buying (from one of the above) ... read more
- I am now in the market for an emergency replacement external hard drive. Any suggestions? 1 Answer
  
  I use the Western Digital and love it. read more
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- Headin' to the Apple Store with the Bro-In-Law to pick up his MacBook. New hard drive and shell.
- Oddly exciting: doing a massive hard drive cleanup and not emptying the trash until the end and watching 30 GB reclaimed space.
- #Imthankfulfor @BohemianBuffalo Who makes my crap pretty and readable and keeps me from clearing off my hard drive.
- Damn, my 1TB hard drive is already down to 700MB after 1 day. Video takes up a lot of space! Still have abt 50GB more video to transfer over
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