Hard Drive

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The hard drive is the computer hardware device that stores the operating system, program files and user data in a computer system. They come in various capacities, with a maximum commercially available size of 2000 Gigabytes.

Hard Drive Technologies

Hard Disk Interfaces
- IDE Integrated Drive Electronics/PATA Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
- SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
- SAS Serial Attached SCSCI
- SCSI Small Computer System Interface
Hard Drive Technologies
- NCQ Native Command Queueing
- TCQ Tagged Command Queueing
- RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks

Hard Drive Manufacturer Websites

Also see Storage from the OCAU Content Archive.

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−	The '''hard drive''' is the [[Hardware\|computer hardware]] device that stores the [[Operating System\|operating system]], program files and user [[data]] in a computer system. They come in various capacities, with a maximum commercially available size of ~~1000~~ [[Gigabyte]]s.	+	The '''hard drive''' is the [[Hardware\|computer hardware]] device that stores the [[Operating System\|operating system]], program files and user [[data]] in a computer system. They come in various capacities, with a maximum commercially available size of 2000 [[Gigabyte]]s.

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