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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

hard drive

The unit made up of the mechanism that rotates the disks between the read/write heads and the mechanism that controls the heads. The hard drive incorporates a fixed disk, usually non-removable.

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Hardware › storage
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