fixed disk

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Noun1.fixed disk - a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unitfixed disk - a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit
hard disc, hard disk
disc drive, disk drive, hard drive, Winchester drive - computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it
magnetic disc, magnetic disk, disc, disk - (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
removable disk - a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive; removal prevents unauthorized use
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In contrast, the second metaphor--Confidence Intervals Are Changing Points on a Fixed Disk ("Fixed Disk metaphor")--conceptualizes confidence intervals as fixed-diameter disks onto which successive points are placed.
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Virtualization is an inherent capability of enterprise storage arrays, which aggregate capacity from multiple fixed disk drives in a single physical frame and present logical volumes for host access.
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Storage management, in general, and storage area networking, in particular, should provide some relief from this conundrum by managing pooled, fixed disk and tape resources, as well as all removable media and the implementation of just-in-time storage management.
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The video motion segments come from a compact disk, while the questions are queued from a data base contained on the fixed disk drive in our home computer.
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