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disk controller

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Noun1.disk controller - (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive
controller, control - a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

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We basically had that chip and then we had the floppy disk controller as well.
SST (NASDAQ:SSTI) recently announced a new stand-alone, high-performance ATA Flash Disk Controller that boasts a sustained write speed of up to 4 MBytes/sec.
All this is possible because the RAID hard disk controller reconstructs the missing information from the information that resides on the remaining redundant healthy disks.
 
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