Definition: Drive


Often used synonymously with disk. For removable media, the term is used about the fixed housing unit. Examples: floppy drive, tape drive.




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Transfer Rate

The rate at which the hard drive sends and receives data from the controller. Processing, head switches, and seeks are all figured into the transfer rate in order to accurately portray drive performance. The burst mode transfer rate is separate from transfer rate, as it refers only to the transfer of data into RAM.

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