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Topic: Disk Drive

Related:
  Drive    Disk  
  Hard Disk Drive    Floppy Disk Drive  
  Hard Drive    Hard Disk  
  CD ROM drive    Disk Space  
  Floppy Disk    Disk Operating System  
  DVD drive    Disk Image  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Steve Jobs,  Bill Gates
Favorite possession(s):Windows computer,  Apple Computer,  Linux box
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  PC World
Favorite activity(s):Karaoke
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Interest(s):Computers
Favorite computer game(s):Hacking,  Myst,  X-Wing
Favorite online activity(s):Downloading MP3's,  Finding warez,  Chatting on ICQ
Ultimate fantasy(s):Finding genuinely free porn on the internet
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
 
 
 Expert Talk
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

The 1541 disk drives format each side of the disk with 664 blocks free.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

Disk drives store information on rigid disks that historically have been made from nickel-plated aluminum.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Disk drives are aligned to within specific tolerance ranges, and it is quite common to find disk drives on either side of tolerance specifications.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

LIMDOW disks and drives work on the same basic principle as a standard MO drive: the write surface is heated up and takes on a magnetic force applied from outside.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

S boot disk for Pentium 90 Server supplied under ARIS which had a Sony drive and SCSI mother board We made a floppy bootable for Linux using rawrite program came with CD.
Disk and Tape Pricing Guidelines The key factor used to determine the purchase price per gigabyte for a working tape subsystem is the ratio of the number of tape cartridges to the number of tape drives.
Floppy disk images Floppy disk images are used to simulate floppy drives connected to the emulated Amiga.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Disk Druid is a component of the Red Hat Linux installation program that is used to partition disk drives during the installation process.
Because disk drives are mechanical, data being read or written requires a motor that spins the actual disk, as well as a mechanism to move the drive head to the appropriate location on the disk surface.
It is possible to employ different disk drives or directories for different file types used by the program.
Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant

Logical drives are numbered from 5 irrespective of the number of slices on the disk.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Disk Amnesia is intended for wiping physical and logical drives.
 
 
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