disk drives
Spinning platter readers
Disk drives are devices that read and write data on spinning magnetic or optical disks.
Hard disk drives store data on magnetic platters inside a sealed unit.
Optical drives handle CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs.
The term persists even as solid-state drives, which have no spinning disk, increasingly replace them: My laptop doesn't have a disk drive anymore.
- SSDChip-based storage device
- platterLarge flat serving dish
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- storage deviceHardware for saving data
- dataFacts for analysis
spindle · click of death · sector · seek time · magnetic storage · CD-ROM · track · data recovery · BIOS · Blu-ray · NVMe · expansion slots · peripherals · HDD · file management · optical storage · defragmentation · microcomputer
disk drivessolid-state drives
Non-mechanical digital storage
SSDs · flash memory · SD cards · thumb drives · flash drives
disk drivesRAM
Temporary data storage hardware
volatile memory · DRAM · cache memory · working memory · registers
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