USB 2.0 External 2.5" SATA SSD HDD Hard Drive Disc Enclosure Case Disk Box 🔔❤️Become a [BONKERS] Channel Member► https://www.youtube.com/c/LIVEFUNandD... (Don't forget to turn on the bell notifications!) MERCH: 1. https://www.redbubble.com/people/live... 2. http://tee.pub/lic/K7BrdzG4rQ0 3. https://teespring.com/shop/live-fun-d... 🎬Watch my most recent videos: / livefunanddiy I'M a Dreamer & Maker® My channel is about LIVE: nature and planet. FUN: making crazy & funny stuff. DIY: Tutorials with creative and cool ideas FOLLOW ME ←←← -------------------------------SOCIAL------------------------------- 📸Instagram: bonkers_diy 👥Facebook: BonkersDiy 🐦Twitter: LiveFunAndDiy Don't Forget To Subscribe The Channel / Share Your Thought Through Comments / Give Thumbs. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #BonkersDIY #LiveFunDIY #externalharddrive #laptophdd CREDITS: Song: RetroVision - Campfire [NCS Release] • RetroVision - Campfire | Future House | NC... ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk[b] is a data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces.[2] Data is accessed in a randomaccess manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. HDDs are a type of non-volatile storage, retaining stored data even when powered off.[3][4][5] Introduced by IBM in 1956,[6] HDDs became the dominant secondary storage device for general-purpose computers by the early 1960s. Continuously improved, HDDs have maintained this position into the modern era of servers and personal computers. More than 200 companies have produced HDDs historically, though after extensive industry consolidation most current units are manufactured by Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. HDD unit shipments and sales revenues are declining, though production (exabytes per year) is growing. Flash memory has a growing share of the market for secondary storage, in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs). SSDs have higher data-transfer rates, higher areal storage density, better reliability, [7] and much lower latency and access times.[8][9][10][11] Though SSDs have higher cost per bit, they are replacing HDDs where speed, power consumption, small size, and durability are important.[10][11] The primary characteristics of an HDD are its capacity and performance. Capacity is specified in unit prefixes corresponding to powers of 1000: a 1-terabyte (TB) drive has a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes (GB; where 1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes). Typically, some of an HDD's capacity is unavailable to the user because it is used by the file system and the computer operating system, and possibly inbuilt redundancy for error correction and recovery. Performance is specified by the time required to move the heads to a track or cylinder (average access time) plus the time it takes for the desired sector to move under the head (average latency, which is a function of the physical rotational speed in revolutions per minute), and finally the speed at which the data is transmitted (data rate). The two most common form factors for modern HDDs are 3.5-inch, for desktop computers, and 2.5-inch, primarily for laptops. HDDs are connected to systems by standard interface cables such as PATA (Parallel ATA), SATA (Serial ATA), USB or SAS (Serial attached SCSI) cables. History Hard disk drives were introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM real-time transaction processing computer, and were developed for use with general-purpose mainframe and minicomputers. The first IBM drive, the 350 RAMAC in 1956, was approximately the size of two medium-sized refrigerators and stored five million six-bit characters (3.75 megabytes) [12] on a stack of 50 disks.[27] In 1962 the IBM 350 RAMAC disk storage unit was superseded by the IBM 1301 disk storage unit,[28] which consisted of 50 platters, each about 1/8-inch thick and 24 inches in diameter. [29] Whereas the IBM 350 used only two read/write heads which were pneumatically actuated[27] and moved in two dimensions, the 1301 was one of the first disk storage units to use an array of heads, one per platter, moving as a single unit. Cylinder-mode read/write operations were supported, and the heads flew about 250 micro-inches (about 6 µm) above the platter surface. Motion of the head array depended upon a binary adder system of hydraulic actuators which assured repeatable positioning. The 1301 cabinet was about the size of three home Retrieved from "wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hard_disk_drive&oldid=803469438"