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fixed disk — ˌfixed ˈdisk noun [countable] COMPUTING another name for hard disk … Financial and business terms
Fixed Disk — [engl.], Festplatte … Universal-Lexikon
fixed disk — noun a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit • Syn: ↑hard disc, ↑hard disk • Hypernyms: ↑magnetic disk, ↑magnetic disc, ↑disk, ↑disc • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Fixed disk drive — Refer instead to Rigid disk drive … International financial encyclopaedia
fixed disk — fast and stationary storage method which writes on hard magnetic disks … English contemporary dictionary
disk — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. plate, record, discus; face; floppy or fixed disk; wafer; wheel. See circularity, front, layer. v. plow, harrow. See agriculture, preparation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. disc, plate, platter, discoid,… … English dictionary for students
disk drive — noun computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it • Syn: ↑disc drive, ↑hard drive, ↑Winchester drive • Topics: ↑computer science, ↑computing • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Disk loading — The MV 22 Osprey tiltrotor has a relatively high disk loading, producing visible blade tip vortices from condensation of the marine air in this photo of a vertical takeoff … Wikipedia
Disk storage — or disc storage is a general category of storage mechanisms, in which data are digitally recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical methods on a surface layer deposited of one or more planar, round and rotating disks (or… … Wikipedia
Fixed Block Architecture — (FBA) is a disk layout in which each physical record (block) on disk is of the same size. The term fell out of use, since nearly all modern disk drives use this principle, having usually a constant block size of 512 bytes.IBM mainframe systems… … Wikipedia
