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    What are the basic functions of hard drive?

    Hard disk drive basically unlike a Floppy Diskette, a hard drive is mass storage device for data held as magnetic media flux reversal, commonly in binary forms. Hard drive disk is need for to handle bulk storage, that is, the ability to store large, contiguous file containing perhaps a database. Now consider you want to store the records of the 50000 employee of big organization. For that you cannot use Floppy disk so here you have to use Hard Drive.

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    Re: What are the basic functions of hard drive?

    Hard drive is designed to store large amount of the digital information. This is accomplished with by writing the binary data to a series of rotating platters. All the data displayed on computer, including picture, videos, text, are stored on the hard drive. Now new generation of pc are expected to contain large storage capacity.

    They are storage device that can store many types of data, including pictures, movies, text files, documents and applications. Hard drives increase in size, going from gigabytes to terabytes. Hard drives are disk drives that are usually fixed into computers and laptop.

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    Re: What are the basic functions of hard drive?

    The hard drive is basically storage device and which is used to store the information, text, video, files. They are available on different type in the market.

    E.g. 40 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB, 350 GB

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