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== Hard disk types ==
 
== Hard disk types ==
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* [[CDC 9877]]
 
* [[IBM 1301]] (and later similar units, used in mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s)
 
* [[IBM 1301]] (and later similar units, used in mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s)
 
* [[IDE/ATA]]
 
* [[IDE/ATA]]
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* [[Serial Attached SCSI]] (SAS)
 
* [[Serial Attached SCSI]] (SAS)
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Hard disk drive|Hard disk drive (Wikipedia)]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Hard disk drive|Hard disk drive (Wikipedia)]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Disk enclosure|Disk enclosure (Wikipedia)]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Disk enclosure|Disk enclosure (Wikipedia)]]
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* [http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jan/31/snowden-files-computer-destroyed-guardian-gchq-basement-video Revealed: the day Guardian destroyed Snowden hard drives under watchful eye of GCHQ – video]
 
* [http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jan/31/snowden-files-computer-destroyed-guardian-gchq-basement-video Revealed: the day Guardian destroyed Snowden hard drives under watchful eye of GCHQ – video]
 
* [https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_wd Western Digital documentation]
 
* [https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_wd Western Digital documentation]
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* [http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/softgame.html Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Software/Gaming]
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* [http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php Sounds of hard drives failing]
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* [https://www.backblaze.com/hard-drive-test-data.html Hard drive test data]
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* [http://bw-fla.uni-freiburg.de/wordpress/?p=788 Imaging (old) IDE disks – Harder than imagined]
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* [https://blog.archive.org/2011/09/03/hard-drive-archaeology-and-hackerspaces/ Hard Drive Archaeology – And Hackerspaces]

Latest revision as of 18:58, 6 May 2017

See also Filesystems, which are contained on Hard Disks.
File Format
Name Hard disk
Ontology
Released 1956

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A hard disk is a bulk-storage device using rotating platters on which magnetic data is stored. It stores more data than a floppy disk, but is usually less portable (though there are removable hard disk units which can be moved between different computers). Old-time computerists sometimes referred to hard disks as "Winchesters" after the code name of one version of them at IBM.

By the late 1980s, nearly all computers had at least one hard disk drive, and the capacity rapidly increased, going from megabytes to gigabytes, and now terabytes.

A hint on dealing with hard drives of unknown type: look for a label on the drive giving a model number, e.g., ST157A-1. Then "Google it" (or search for it in your favorite search engine); this will often yield a tech spec sheet, even for really ancient drives.

A hard drive enclosure may be of use in hooking up a hard drive to a computer in order to access whatever data is on it without permanently installing it in the computer; it allows drives to be treated as external USB drives.

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