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That’s why some organizations are taking steps toward building a DNA drive to store the deluge of data, in place of magnetic tape and disk drives.
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IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2024
The highest profile one: Texas Pacific and Roger McNamee's brand-new Silver Lake Partners teamed up in April to take private Seagate's $6 billion (sales) disk drive operation.
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Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Those drives were notoriously unreliable, and since the Macintosh didn’t come with any internal storage, a disk drive users could rely on was a critical component.
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Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2024
Of course, bytes on a spinning disk drive accessed serially by a computer are not densely interconnected the way synapses are inside of a brain, so this remarkable amount of information storage has not been combined to emulate even one brain, much less 10 million.
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IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
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First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined above
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“Disk drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disk%20drive. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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disk drive
noun
: a device for reading and writing computer data on a magnetic disk
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