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What is slave and hard drive?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

In computing, you can have two disks, the main and the slave - these are set by jumpers on the hard drive. In classical hardware, the main would have priority over the slave.

However, with better electronics's, most computers don't differentiate between slave and main anymore.

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