Special Features:

Provides high-capacity, high-performance removable storage ranging from 340 mb to 1 gb in a one-inch hard disk drive; integrates with a variety of hand-held devices through use of the industry-standard cf plus type ii format and compatibility with pcmcia type ii (with an adapter); incorporates leading-edge technologies such as giant magnetoresistive (gmr) head technology, load/unload features, enhanced adaptive battery life extender 3.0, and truetrack servo for capacity, performance, and reliability.

Properties:

An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.