Such boards often featured faster and higher capacity memory interfaces and hard disk controllers.

Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk or hard disk drive.

* A2091 / A590 SCSI hard disk controller + 2 MB RAM expansion.

A working prototype was developed that added a 40MB hard disk.

By 1977, in its first edition, Disk / Trend, a leading hard disk drive industry marketing consultancy segmented the industry according to MBs ( decimal sense ) of capacity.

One of the earliest hard disk drives in personal computing history,

This drive was one of several types installed into the IBM PC / XT and extensively advertised and reported as a " 10 MB " ( formatted ) hard disk drive.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

The BIOS then locates boot loader software held on a peripheral device ( designated as a ' boot device '), such as a hard disk or a CD / DVD, and loads and executes that software, giving it control of the PC.

These machines implemented an early Local Area Network to share a hard disk between workgroup users.

40 Gigabyte | GB Parallel ATA | PATA hard disk drive ( HDD ); when connected to a computer it serves as secondary storage.

Storage consists of storage devices and their media not directly accessible by the CPU, ( secondary or tertiary storage ), typically hard disk drives, optical disc drives, and other devices slower than RAM but are non-volatile ( retaining contents when powered down ).

Hence servers usually are high speed computers with large hard disk capacity.

Smaller data sets ease the strain on relatively expensive storage sub-systems such as non-volatile memory and hard disk, as well as write-once-read-many formats such as CD-ROM, DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

A complete installation will take in excess of 11. 5 GB of hard disk space, but usable configurations may require as little as 1 or 2 GB.

The twin Hard disk drive | hard drives of an IBM 305 system

For example, there is a hard disk, from which most operating systems run and on which most store their files.

Copying files to another hard disk in the same computer protects against failure of one disk, but if it is necessary to protect against failure or destruction of the entire computer, then copies of the files must be made on other media that can be taken away from the computer and stored in a safe, distant location.

* Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation in the hard disk drive market ( after the acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division by the former and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies by the latter )

Notable types are the hard disk drive ( HDD ) containing a non-removable disk, the floppy disk drive ( FDD ) and its removable floppy disk, and various optical disc drives and associated optical disc media.

It included on-board RAM, SASI hard disk interface and a MC68008 processor.

It had a full set of hardware and software components: a disk operating system included in a series of programmable read-only memory chips ( PROMs ); 8 Kilobytes of RAM ; IBM's Basic Assembly Language ( BAL ); a hard drive ; a color display ; a printer output ; a 150 bit / s serial interface for connecting to a mainframe ; and even the world's first microcomputer front panel.

* The LaserWriter IIf had a faster processor than the IINTX, a newer version of PostScript and also HP PCL, and included the SCSI interface for font storage on an external hard drive

Later, the Macintosh II was released which was much more suitable for desktop publishing because of its greater expandability, support for large color multi-monitor displays, and its SCSI storage interface which allowed fast, high-capacity hard drives to be attached to the system.

Examples are hard disk drive cards, and interface cards with full-size connectors that do not require dongles ( as is commonly required with type II interface cards ).

In that case, a graphics card and an ST-506 hard disk controller card provided graphics capability and hard drive interface respectively.

MeikOS had " diskless " and " fileserver " variants, the former running on the seat processor of an M²VCS domain, providing a command line user interface for a particular user ; the latter running on processors with attached SCSI hard disks, providing a remote file service ( called SFS, Surface File System ) to instances of diskless MeikOS.

* 2000-Purchased Quantum's hard disk line of business especially for their ATA133 IDE interface.

The IIfx used SCSI as its hard disk interface, as had all previous Macintosh models since the Macintosh Plus.

The Big Board II added a hard disk drive interface, enhancements to system speed ( 4 MHz vs. 2. 5 MHz ) and enhancements to the terminal interface.

* SASI / SCSI hard disk interface, also usable as a general purpose I / O or for control of other SCSI devices.

For instance, the high-speed ATA interface cable used for computer hard disk interfaces ULTRA-ATA has 0. 025-inch ( 0. 64-mm ) pitch.

DBA ( Direct Bus Attachment ) connector for connecting train hard disk interface ESDI / ST-412

In 1986, they introduced the WD33C93 single-chip SCSI interface, which was used in the first 16-bit bus mastering SCSI host adapter, the WD7000 " FASST "; in 1987 they introduced the WD37C65, a single-chip implementation of the PC / AT's floppy disk controller circuitry, and the grandfather of modern super I / O chips ; in 1988 they introduced the WD42C22 " Vanilla ", the first single-chip ATA hard disk controller.

Products and ideas of this time didn't go far ; the Portfolio drive ( a form factor model, developed with JT Storage ) was a flop, as was the SDX hard disk to CD-ROM interface.

A personal computer can be used as a hard disk recorder with appropriate software ; nowadays this solution is often preferred, as it provides a more flexible interface to the studio engineer.

Because they use a slightly modified Parallel ATA ( PATA ) interface, a simple adapter is all that is needed to connect CF cards to function as an PATA or PC Card hard disk.

It does not have to be external to the computer on which the program is run ; reduced hard disk access time or an enhanced user interface could also be a technical effect.

A digital audio interface for the Pro Tools computer-based hard disk recording system.

Although the IIc lacked a SCSI or IDE interface, external hard drives were produced by third parties that connected through the floppy SmartPort as an innovative alternative connection method ( e. g. ProApp, Chinook, C-Drive ).

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

Her laugh was hard.

It was snowing hard when they got there and they saw no horses outside.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.