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.

This is the reason for specifying computer hard drive capacities of, say, 100 GB, when it contains 93 GiB of storage space.

Small BBSes copied each file individually to their hard drive.

For example, a 500 gigabyte hard drive holds bytes, and a 100 megabit per second Ethernet connection transfers data at bit / s.

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.

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.

Today, for example, a " 300 GB " hard drive offers slightly more than 300 × 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, or, bytes, not 300 × 2 < sup > 30 </ sup > ( which would be about 322 × 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >).

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows that display hard drive sizes using the customary binary prefix " GB " ( as it is used for RAM ) would display this as 279. 4 GB ( meaning 279. 4 × 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup >, or 279. 4 ×).

On the other hand, Mac OS X has since version 10. 6 shown hard drive size using decimal prefixes ( thus matching the drive makers ' packaging ).

Like the hard drive, there is nothing in a computer clock circuit or data transfer path that demands or even encourages that things happen at rates easily expressed using powers of 1024, or even using powers of 2.

Servers commonly have a backplane to attach hot swappable hard drives ; backplane pins pass directly into hard drive sockets without cables.

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.

BJU Press also offers distance learning courses via online, DVD, and hard drive.

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

Computer software has to be " loaded " into the computer's storage ( such as the hard drive or memory ).

In a modern system we might find a multi-core CPU, DDR3 SDRAM for memory, a hard drive for offline data, a graphics card and LCD display as a display system, a mouse and keyboard for interaction, and a Wi-Fi connection for networking.

CD-R recording systems available in 1990 were similar to the washing machine-sized Meridian CD Publisher, based on the two-piece rack mount Yamaha PDS audio recorder costing $ 35, 000, not including the required external ECC circuitry for data encoding, SCSI hard drive subsystem, and MS-DOS control computer.

For example, some memory can be stored in physical RAM chips while other memory is stored on a hard drive.

This works well for larger amounts of data, longer latencies and slower throughputs, such as experienced with a hard drive and the Internet, but is not efficient for use with a CPU cache.

Even industrial development leaders find it hard to win local support for training unless a new industry is in sight and requests it.

Producing hard, compact, insoluble and infusable condensation products of phenols and formaldehyde marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry.

By June 1945, the RCA had pushed the FCC hard on the allocation of electromagnetic frequencies for the fledgling television industry.

Ferromagnetism is very important in industry and modern technology, and is the basis for many electrical and electromechanical devices such as electromagnets, electric motors, generators, transformers, and magnetic storage such as tape recorders, and hard disks.

For example, most insurance policies in the English language today have been carefully drafted in plain English ; the industry learned the hard way that many courts will not enforce policies against insureds when the judges themselves cannot understand what the policies are saying.

Other hard rocks mined or collected for axes included the greenstone of the Langdale axe industry based in the English Lake District.

The introduction and advance of the cultured pearl hit the pearl industry hard ; it had pearl dealers publicly disputing over the authenticity of these new cultured pearls, and left many consumers uneasy and confused about the much lower prices.

Toledo continued to expand in population and industry into the early 20th century, but because of a dependency on manufacturing, the city was hit hard by the Great Depression.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid / trunklid, bonnet / hood, bumpers / fenders and doors in Duroplast, a hard plastic similar to bakelite made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

The award was made by the Department of Electronics and Computer Science in recognition of Schneier's ' hard work and contribution to industry and public life '.

This was hardly Rickover's first clash with the defense industry ; he was historically hard, even harsh, in exacting high standards from these contractors – but now his relationship with Electric Boat took on the characteristics of an all-out, no-holds-barred war ( Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover & General Dynamics, 1986 ).

The two World Wars and the growing aviation industry gave impetus to further developments and refinements including such processes as hard chromium plating, bronze alloy plating, sulfamate nickel plating, along with numerous other plating processes.

Export income fell due to a hard hit copper industry: the price of copper on international markets fell by almost a third, and post-nationalization copper production fell as well.

In 1875, the Dallas Herald published an article by a former Fort Worth lawyer, Robert E. Cowart, who wrote that the decimation of Fort Worth's population, caused by the economic disaster and hard winter of 1873, had dealt a severe blow to the cattle industry.

The first one is a hard outer shiny brown hull or husk, called the pericarpus ; the industry calls this the peel.

On the negative side, Bermuda's already weakening tourism industry has been hard hit as American tourists have chosen not to travel.

In the 1950s, however, the coal industry fell into decline ; in the 1970s, the collapse of American steel brought hard times to the county.

Forestry was a primary industry in the late 1800's, but gave way to farming of rice, soybeans, hard red winter wheat, and other grains.

This was considered by many industry watchers to be a particularly peculiar move, since the market for such hard drives ( mainly notebook computers and MP3 players ) was already experiencing rapid growth, with no signs of slowing down in the foreseeable future.

However, the industry fell on hard times and both major refractory plants in the area closed in 2002.

The settlement of Culbertson followed hard on the heels of the 1886-87 watershed years for the early cattle industry.

After the Second World War the paper industry started to decline, and when the paper mill closed in the 1960s the town faced hard economic times.