hard disk

A type of disk that is typically faster and larger in capacity than a floppy disk.

Hard disks (also called disk drives) include:

• Non-removable drives. The files you own, the ones you see when you do an ls command, are stored on non-removable hard drives.
• We also have some removable hard drives that can be used for making backup copies or transferring files from other systems.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 1997/09/26 19:30:51 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/g/hard_disk.html