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disk drive Last modified: Tuesday, January 08, 2002
A machine that reads data from and writes data onto a disk. A disk drive rotates the disk very fast and has one or more heads that read and write data. There are different types of disk drives for different types of disks. For example, a hard disk drive (HDD) reads and writes hard disks, and a floppy drive (FDD) accesses floppy disks. A magnetic disk drive reads magnetic disks, and an optical drive reads optical disks. Disk drives can be either internal (housed within the computer) or external (housed in a separate box that connects to the computer).		Related Categories Disk Drives Related Terms access time ATA DDO disk disk striping floppy disk hard disk landing zone magnetic drum mass storage optical disk RAID SMART spindle
DISK/TREND market research site  Provides market research on rigid, flexible and optical disk drives, disk drive arrays, disk autochangers and flash memory cards. Also provided are research summaries and over 200 links to manufacturing, educational and government organizations concerned with data storage. PC Mechanic - online guide to computer hardware  Contains overviews, purchasing and installation information for PC motherboards, memory, drives, expansion cards, and power supplies. Also contains links to companies and manufacturers and PC hardware related links. Plasmon optical jukebox product page This page highlights two of Plasmon's optical jukebox products. These are high-end storage components design to run data and image intensive programs. Troubleshooting Floppy Disk Drives Discusses troubleshooting problems related to the floppy disk drive. This page is from "The PC Guide."