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unusual facts about hard drive



1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad

It was recorded mainly on vintage equipment, using equipment such as a 1895 Edison wax cylinder recorder, a 1940's wire recorder, a "state of the art hard drive", and reel to reel tape recorders, hence its lo-fi sound.

CompTIA

Topics of the Essentials/Core examination include IRQs, direct memory access, and practical computer repair, including the installation and repair of hard drives, modems, network cards, CPUs, power supplies, PDAs, and printers.

Computer repair technician

Technicians also work with and occasionally repair a range of peripherals, including input devices (like keyboards, mice, and scanners), output devices (like displays, printers, and speakers), and data storage devices such as internal and external hard drives and disk arrays.

Medison

The announced computer had a 14-inch (35.5 cm) WXGA screen, an Intel Celeron processor at 1.5 GHz, 256MB of DDR333/400 RAM, a 40GB hard drive, VIA PN800 integrated graphics, a CD/DVD Combo drive and 802.11g wireless networking.

Santa Barbara News-Press controversy

On April 22, 2007, the News-Press published a front-page article stating that the Santa Barbara Police Department had viewed nearly 15,000 pornographic images on a company computer hard drive once used by former editor Roberts, some of which amounted to child pornography.

SupraFAXModem 14400

Supra, Inc. had been a small player in the computer market through the mid-to-late 1980s, known originally for their external hard drives for the Atari ST and a variety of follow-on products.

TapeOnline

TapeOnline carries over 1,000 recording media and related products including Video tape, Audio tape, data tape, disc media, Memory cards, hard drives and disc accessories.

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.


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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.

AVT

Advanced volatile threat, term commonly used to refer to cyber threats with malicious code that does not need to reach its victim's hard drive.

BackupHDDVD

On December 18, 2006, a video which showed BackupHDDVD being used to decrypt and copy the film Full Metal Jacket to a hard drive was uploaded to YouTube.

Barebook

It is only supplied with basic elements (case, motherboard, CPU-fan, display, et al.) and one has to add components such as CPU, memory, hard drive, wireless card, and so on separately.

Cadillac CTS

Available features on the second-gen CTS included a Bose 5.1 surround sound system, GM's Stabilitrak ESC system, a tire pressure monitoring system, a navigation system with real-time traffic and weather data, an integrated 40 GB hard drive for music storage, swiveling headlights, and remote starting.

Dan Dodge

After moving to Kanata, Ontario, (a high-tech area outside Ottawa) to start Quantum Software Systems (later renamed QNX Software Systems to avoid confusion with the famous hard drive manufacturer), the first commercial version of QNX was released for the Intel 8088 CPU in 1982.

Danni Ashe

Ashe's website and exploits as an internet entrepreneur and a female executive were the subject of a 2000 book titled My Year in Smut: The Internet Escapades Inside Danni's Hard Drive by Taylor Marsh.

DarkSpace

2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4/AMD Sempron Processor, Windows XP/Vista/7, Dedicated graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 9500GT / AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series or better), 1 GB of RAM (2 GB for Vista/7), 200 MB free hard drive space, Broadband internet connection, Direct Input compatible mouse, DirectX 9.0c or higher.

Digital Cinema Initiatives

Inside Man was Universal's first DCP commercial release, and, in addition to 35mm film distribution, was delivered via hard drive to 20 theatres in the United States along with two trailers.

Dish Network

The new Hopper also includes a 2 TB hard drive (allowing the storage of up to 2,000 hours of standard definition recordings and 500 hours in high definition) and a Broadcom BCM7425 CPU.

Disk cache

Disk buffer, the small amount of buffer memory present on a hard drive.

History of hard disk drives

In 2011, based on market research firm IDC, the biggest hard drive makers were Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp., but the largest national producer was China, followed by Thailand which makes about a quarter of the world's hard drives.

Latitude ON

Latitude ON Reader is similar to Dell's MediaDirect where the software is located in a separate partition on the system hard drive and has a dedicated button to power on.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Dusty is able to determine from the contents of the hard drive that the PETN came from Sarajevo, where a weapons dealer named Stovan Bosic, whom Dusty used to work with, was selling it.

Olympus Camedia C-700 Ultra Zoom

A driver is needed to connect to Microsoft Windows 98 SE for image transfer, but Windows 2000 and later, as well as most Linux and Apple Mac OS X systems automatically recognize the camera as an external hard drive.

OtherOS

However, Sony included an option in the XMB menu soon after the PlayStation 3 launched that allowed booting into Linux from the hard drive or from a Live CD that the distributor's kernel would boot.

Rock Kills Kid

They signed to Reprise Records and toured extensively in support of their debut album, Are You Nervous (with drums played by Kenny Livingston of Sugarcult and production/engineering tasks given to Mark Trombino) who recorded drums at Hollywood Recording and the rest at Doug Messenger's hard drive analog and digital in North Hollywood.

Seagate SeaShield

The other half is mounted on the bottom side of hard drive, and is fastened with a metal hook to the electronics board with two Torx screws.

Ultra-mobile PC

In September 2006, Raon Digital launched the Vega running an AMD Geode LX800, 256 MB of RAM, and a 30 GB hard drive.

United States v. Manning

He said he also recovered 14–15 pages of encrypted chats, in unallocated space on Manning's MacBook's hard drive, between Manning and someone believed to be Julian Assange, using the Adium instant messaging client.

Virus hoax

This joke email claims to be authored by the Amish or other similar low-technology populations who have no computers, programming skills or electricity to create viruses and thus ask you to delete your own hard drive contents manually after forwarding the message to your friends.

Windows Preinstallation Environment

The "Refresh" operation maintains files, settings, and Windows Store apps (but not other desktop applications), while "Reset" performs a clean install of Windows, optionally formatting the hard drive and perform disk wiping.