hard disk

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk 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. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored and retrieved in any order. HDDs are a type of non-volatile storage, retaining stored data when powered off. Modern HDDs are typically in the form of a small rectangular box.
Introduced by IBM in 1956, HDDs were the dominant secondary storage device for general-purpose computers beginning in the early 1960s. HDDs maintained this position into the modern era of servers and personal computers, though personal computing devices produced in large volume, like cell phones and tablets, rely on flash memory storage devices. More than 224 companies have produced HDDs historically, though after extensive industry consolidation most units are manufactured by Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. HDDs dominate the volume of storage produced (exabytes per year) for servers. Though production is growing slowly (by exabytes shipped), sales revenues and unit shipments are declining because solid-state drives (SSDs) have higher data-transfer rates, higher areal storage density, somewhat better reliability, and much lower latency and access times.The revenues for SSDs, most of which use NAND flash memory, slightly exceeded those for HDDs in 2018. Flash storage products had more than twice the revenue of hard disk drives as of 2017. Though SSDs have four to nine times higher cost per bit, they are replacing HDDs in applications where speed, power consumption, small size, high capacity and durability are important. As of 2019, the cost per bit of SSDs is falling, and the price ρrémíùm over HDDs has narrowed.The primary characteristics of an HDD are its capacity and performance. Capacity is specified in unit prefixes corresponding to powers of 1000: a 1-terabyte (TB) drive has a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes (GB; where 1 gigabyte = 1 billion (109) bytes). Typically, some of an HDD's capacity is unavailable to the user because it is used by the file system and the computer operating system, and possibly inbuilt redundancy for error correction and recovery. There can be confusion regarding storage capacity, since capacities are stated in decimal gigabytes (powers of 1000) by HDD manufacturers, whereas the most commonly used operating systems report capacities in powers of 1024, which results in a smaller number than advertised. Performance is specified as the time required to move the heads to a track or cylinder (average access time), the time it takes for the desired sector to move under the head (average latency, which is a function of the physical rotational speed in revolutions per minute), and finally the speed at which the data is transmitted (data rate).
The two most common form factors for modern HDDs are 3.5-inch, for desktop computers, and 2.5-inch, primarily for laptops. HDDs are connected to systems by standard interface cables such as PATA (Parallel ATA), SATA (Serial ATA), USB or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) cables.

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    Direct Link Hard Disk Sentinel PRO 6.20

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    Direct Link Paragon Hard Disk Manager 17 Advanced + WinPE

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    Help Deleted and formatted hard disk?

    patulong naman po baka meron nakakaalam paano maayos yung hard disk na naformat ko na at nadelete via cmd? nagloko kasi pc ko then kung ano ano napanuod ko sa yt gang sa ganun nga po nagawa ko tapos ngayon hindi ko na maformat o mainstallan ng panibagong windows lage ganito error nya salamat po
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    PC App Hard Disk Sentinel Request

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    PC App Hard Disk Sentinel Standard v6.10 Lifetime Giveaway

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    Hard disk security lock

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    Hard disk retrieval

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    PC App Hard Disk Sentinel Standard Version Permanent

    What is the Hard Disk Sentinel Standard? Hard Disk Sentinel is a hard disk monitoring and analyzing software with the highest possible support of HDD/SSD/SSHD (hybrid) drives. It will automatically check, search, and diagnose problems related to your computer hard drive. If any problems are...
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    PC App Paragon Hard Disk Manager 17 Advanced 17.20.17

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    Tutorial HARD DISK Cannot Format,Detected,USB Flash Drive Cannot Format or Detected(for newbie)

    (SOME ERRORs of hard disk or Flash Drive that cannot let you format or detect. ) Hello mga ka-PH First Steps: (NOTE: make Sure all devices are connected) 1- Open CMD.exe (Command Prompt) on START MENU Then Type: DISKPART then enter then Type: List disk then enter Choose the Disk Volume...
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    Help sa magrepair magbuhay ng Hard Disk

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    Help Hard disk question

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    About hard disk

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    Calling IT Specialist

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    Help External Hard Disk - No media (Chipsbank)

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    Help Changing hard disk and installing different window os

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    Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 5.70.11973 (automatically activated)

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    Closed Seagate External Hard Disk Driver

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    Closed External hard drive uli

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    Closed Help me about this error

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    Closed How to increase the fake size your hard disk space up to 2 tb in window 10 (fake hdd)

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    Closed Good hard disk

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    Closed Hard disk

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    Closed Hard disk data recovery

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    Closed hard disk

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    Closed Asking for Price HDD 500GB to 1TB

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    Closed External Hard Disc Drive Won't Read

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