Hard Drive

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 the maximum currently commercially available is around the 1000 Gigabyte mark.

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

• Hitachi
• Maxtor
• Samsung
• Seagate
• Western Digital

Also see Storage from the OCAU Content Archive.