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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.
—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.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
Even Clayton Christensen’s key example of disruptive innovation—the rise of smaller disk drive producers in the hard disk industry—is wrong: Seagate not only survived disruption but remains the world’s largest manufacturer to this day.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Apple eventually opted to use a new 3.5-inch disk drive design from Sony, and Steve Jobs reportedly ordered all of the Macintosh Twiggy prototypes to be destroyed — but not all of them were.
—Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2024
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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 23 Dec. 2024.
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disk drive
noun
: a device for reading and writing computer data on a magnetic disk
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