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disk drive) A floppy disk drive. As the disk is inserted into the drive, its surface is exposed to the read-write head, which moves over the spinning disk surface to locate a specific track. Mechanical device that reads data from a disk. Many types can also write data to the disk. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The hard disk drive is the main storage centre of your data inside the computer system. Hitachi purchased IBM's hard disk drive division, integrated their own HDD operations, and launched the company in 2003. Only 700million were sold worldwide last year compared to two billion in 1998 while 98 per cent of today's PCs no longer have the disk drive they need. |
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