A similar IBM disk drive from the day held less than 1/50th of what the data cell could hold. If you loaded a control unit with eight drums, it would be the same as over 440 IBM2311 disk drives.

The RAMAC - First Hard Disk (1956) Extraordinary technology for the 1950s, IBM's RAMAC was the first computer with a hard disk. Each of the 50 disk platters two feet in diameter held a whopping ...

Disk cloning creates a functional one-to-one copy of a hard drive, while disk imaging creates an archive of a hard drive that can be used to make a one-to-one copy. Copy and Paste.

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with ...

This tutorial goes through the steps of partitioning a hard drive using Disk Utility, which comes with every Mac. By Roman Loyola. Senior Editor, Macworld APR 22, 2011 4:01 am PDT.