Special Features:

N5.250 in., write-once drive; records up to 800mb on a removable optical disk cartridge; horizontal or vertical mounting; solid state laser diode; shock mounting for ruggedization; 256kb buffer; current rating in amps: 1.3

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.