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unusual facts about disk drives



Internet 1996 World Exposition

In-kind contributions from sponsors included the first DS3 over the Pacific Ocean and two terabytes of disk drives.


see also

Assignment

Drive letter assignment, the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to disk drives or partitions

Atari DOS

In 1978 Percom established a double-density layout standard which all other manufacturers of Atari-compatible disk drives such as Indus, Amdek, and Rana—except Atari itself—followed.

Diablo Data Systems

The company was best known for the HyType I, HyType II, and Diablo 630 daisywheel printers, but also produced the hard disk drives that were resold by DEC as the RK02 and RK03.

Fert

Albert Fert, a French physicist who enabled a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.

Hard disk drive failure

The first HDD RAMAC and most early disk drives used complex mechanisms to load and unload the heads.

NMS-8250

The Philips NMS-8250, (NMS is short for "New Media Systems") was a professional MSX 2 home computer for the high end market, with two built in floppy disk drives in a "pizza box" configuration.

System Fault Tolerance

SFT II is a disk mirroring or duplexing system based on RAID 1; mirroring refers to two disk drives holding the same data, duplexing uses two data channels/controllers to connect the disks (fault tolerance on disk and optionally data channel level).

VAX 8000

The VAX 8600 I/O cabinet contained a PDP-11 computer serving as the console, a Unibus card cage and provisions for mounting disk drives.