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  2. Disk enclosure - Wikipedia

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    A 3.5-inch USB/FireWire hard disk enclosure with cover removed. 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 communicate to one or more separate computers.

  3. Hard disk drive platter - Wikipedia

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    A typical magnetic region on a hard-disk platter (as of 2006) is about 200–250 nanometers wide (in the radial direction of the platter) and extends about 25–30 nanometers in the down-track direction (the circumferential direction on the platter), [citation needed] corresponding to about 100 billion bits per square inch of disk area (15.5 ...

  4. SyQuest SparQ - Wikipedia

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    As a removable-disk hard drive, it contains a solid hard disk platter on which the data is stored. When the SparQ drive was launched, it was relatively cheap. Compared to the Zip drive whose 100 MB disk could cost US$22, a 1 GB SparQ disk could cost US$39 — slightly less than twice the cost for ten times the storage capacity.

  5. History of IBM magnetic disk drives - Wikipedia

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    Packaged in Hard Disk Assemblies with two actuator-head units and one set of platters, a model 1 HDA provides 1.89 GB before formatting and a model 2 provides 3.78 GB/HDA. The Model 3 enhancement to the drive family, announced September 11, 1991, increased capacity 1.5 times to 5.67 GB/HDA and the Model 9, announced May 20, 1993, further ...

  6. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk [a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

  7. Disk read-and-write head - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk head and arm on a platter Microphotograph of a hard disk head. The size of the front edge is about 0.3 * 1.2 mm. The functional part of the head is the round, orange structure in the middle. Also note the connection wires bonded to gold-plated pads. Read–write head of a 3 TB hard disk drive manufactured

  8. List of defunct hard disk manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Wong, Poh-Kam (July 1999). "The Dynamics of the HDD Industry Development in Singapore" (PDF).Centre for Management of Innovation and Technopreneurship, National University of Singapore: The Information Storage Industry Center, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California.

  9. Jungle Disk - Wikipedia

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    Jungle Disk was founded in Atlanta by Dave Wright in 2006. On October 22, 2008, Jungle Disk entered into an agreement to be acquired by Rackspace Hosting, Inc. Rackspace purchased Jungle Disk in order to expand their cloud hosting services. [4]