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unusual facts about hard disk



Apple HD SC Setup

Introduced with Apple's first SCSI hard drive, the Hard Disk 20SC in September 1986, Apple HD SC Setup can update drivers and partition and initialize hard disks.

File Alteration Monitor

This greatly aids the applications, because before FAM existed, such applications would have to read the disk repeatedly to detect any changes, which resulted in high disk and CPU usage.

Hierarchical File System

Apple introduced HFS out of necessity with its first 20 MB hard disk offering for the Macintosh in September 1985.

Out-of-box experience

While the installation is largely automatic, the user must proceed through multiple screens to acknowledge software license terms, specify partition settings for the hard disk, enter the "product key", select international settings, a time zone, and also configure network settings.

Unreal Tournament 2003

3.5 GB free, 64 MB of video memory recommended

Linux 2.2+ or Windows 98-Win7, 733 MHz x86 CPU, 128 MB RAM, video card with 16 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD space, DirectX 8.1 or OpenGL 1.2

Mac OS X 10.2.6+, 700 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU, 256 MB RAM, GeForce 2 MX or Radeon with 32 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD space

Yourself!Fitness

This is achieved by dynamically tracking their progress on an ongoing profile using the hard drive (or the PS2's memory card), setting up a schedule to be followed, and Maya making suggestions to the player using computations being made by the program.


see also

Apple HD SC Setup

It was often used when reinstalling the operating system of an Apple Macintosh computer, or to repair corrupt partition information on a SCSI hard disk.

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.

Diamond-like carbon

DLC is also used in the engines of modern supersport motorcycles, Formula 1 racecars, NASCAR vehicles, and as a coating on hard-disk platters and hard-disk read heads to protect against head crashes.

Direct to disc

Direct-to-disk recording (DDR), a recording method by which audio and/or video signals are recorded directly to digital storage media (e.g. a hard disk drive)

Fert

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

HD Loader

However, players who were using HD Advance 2.0 retail pressed discs (CD or DVD) to format a Maxtor hard disk with 80 GB capacity and subsequently use the disc to play PS2 games from the HDD were reported experincing a strange problem.

ISIS Mapping

The current devices in the ISIS Mapping toolkit include the Nokia N95 smartphone, the Nikon Coolpix P6000 digital camera, the Flip Video Mino HD camcorder, and the LaCie Rugged Hard Disk (for storage/archiving purposes).

Macintosh Quadra 630

The Quadra 630 featured an 68040 processor, 4 MB of RAM, a 250 MB hard disk and a CD-ROM drive; the LC 630 was essentially identical, but had the FPU-less 68LC040 processor.

MacWorks XL

By the fall, Apple had introduced versions 2.0 & 3.0 which allowed MacWorks to run from the Lisa's internal Widget or attached ProFile hard disk.

PKG

.pkg, a file format used by Apple to install applications and Sony's PlayStation 3 to install games onto the PS3's hard disk

Pro/DESKTOP

The key was based on the computers hard disk's Volume Serial Number (8 characters) and additional data about the computer (5 bytes).

Ribbon cable

For instance, the high-speed ATA interface cable used for computer hard disk interfaces ULTRA-ATA has 0.025-inch (0.64-mm) pitch.

Ripped

Ripping, the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk

Seagate Technology

The hard disk, which used a Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM) encoding, was a hit, and was later released in a 10-megabyte version, the ST-412, with which Seagate secured a contract as a major OEM supplier for the IBM XT, IBM's first personal computer to contain a hard disk.

The Legend of Lotus Spring

Mac OS System 7.5
90 MHz PowerPC
16 MB RAM
10 MB hard disk space
8x CD-ROM drive
640x480 display
thousands of colours

Wuxi New Area

It is home to many such companies such as hard disk maker Seagate, the Japanese electrical giant Sony and Matsushita Electric among others.