Definition: Disk


A portion of a computer's RAM set aside for temporarily holding information that has been read from a disk. The disk cache does not hold entire files as does a RAM disk, but information that has either been recently requested from a disk or has previously been written to a disk.




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PCB

Printed Circuit Board. Used for the electronics board on the hard drive.

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