I.B.M. said yesterday that it would begin shipments this quarter of a new 15,000 revolutions-a-minute disk drive that performs some tasks as much as 25percentt faster than the industry's current leader, a device from Seagate Technology.
S torage devices employing this technology may offer access speeds up to 100 times faster than current magnetic disk drive technology.
It could keep track of peripherals like a monitor or a disk drive.
A zip drive is an external disk drive whose memory disks hold 70 times more data than a conventional floppy disk.
PACKER can be used with a single 360K disk drive, but a fixed drive is preferable.
"It was developed as a giant file cabinet," he said, "a disk drive before disk drives, to make storage and retrieval of paper easier.
Back in 1994, I had a 386mHZ PC with a 3.5" floppy disk drive.
A hard disk drive Wow is that it?
A prototype disk drive based on phase-change memory can outperform an off-the-shelf flash hard disk.
He has a new disk drive which uses 3.5 inch disks.
Nor does it have a floppy disk drive.
