disk pack
n.
A computer storage device consisting of several magnetic disks that can be used and stored as a unit.
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A computer storage device consisting of several magnetic disks that can be used and stored as a unit.
An early removable hard disk module used in minicomputers and mainframes that contained two or more platters housed in a dust-free container. For mounting, the protective bottom of the unit was removed, and the disk pack was placed into the drive. Then the top part of the disk pack was unscrewed and removed.
| Disk drives used to be huge washing machine-like devices. These were the kinds of removable disk modules that were used in them. |
| Taken in the 1970s, this picture shows the disk pack being loaded into the drive. Such disks held only a couple of hundred megabytes. |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
(computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device
Synonym: disk pack
Disk pack is a layered grouping of hard disk platters (circular, rigid discs coated with a magnetic data storage surface). Disk pack is the core component of a hard disk drive. In modern hard disks, the disk pack is permanently sealed inside the drive. In early hard disks, the disk pack was a removable unit, and would be supplied with a protective canister featuring a lifting handle. Examples of a hard disks with removable disk packs are the IBM 1311, and the Digital RP04.
See also disk cartridge, history of hard disk
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