Disque durUn disque dur (parfois abrégé DD ; en anglais, hard disk drive, HD ou HDD) est une mémoire de masse à disque tournant magnétique utilisée principalement dans les ordinateurs, mais également dans des baladeurs numériques, des caméscopes, des lecteurs/enregistreurs de DVD de salon, des consoles de jeux vidéo Inventé en 1956, le disque dur a fait l'objet d'évolutions de capacité et de performances considérables, tout en voyant son coût diminuer, ce qui a contribué à la généralisation de son utilisation, partic
Disquettethumb|Lecteur de disquette . Une disquette est un support de stockage de données informatiques amovible. La disquette est aussi appelée disque souple (floppy disk en anglais) en raison de la souplesse des premières générations () et par opposition au disque dur. Une disquette est composée d'un fin disque de plastique souple renforcé en son centre sur lequel est apposé un substrat magnétique. Ce disque est enveloppé d'une coque de protection en matière plastique comprenant une couche interne ouatée améliorant la rotation du disque et son nettoyage et une couche externe rigide ou semi-rigide.
Mémoire de masseEn informatique, une mémoire de masse est une mémoire de grande capacité, non volatile et qui peut être lue et écrite, entre autres, par un ordinateur. Technologies désuètes Mémoire à tores magnétiques, carte perforée, ruban perforé, cassette audio, tambour magnétique, disquette et disque magnéto-optique. Technologies en usage Bande magnétique, disque dur, SSD, disque optique (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) et mémoire flash.
Mémoire (informatique)En informatique, la mémoire est un dispositif électronique numérique qui sert à stocker des données. La mémoire est un composant essentiel, présent dans tous les ordinateurs, les consoles de jeux, les GPS et de nombreux appareils électroniques. Les mémoires sont vendues sous forme de pièces détachées de matériel informatique, ou de composants électroniques. Les différences entre les pièces sont la forme, l'usage qui en est fait, la technologie utilisée, la capacité de stockage et le rapport entre le coût et la capacité.
Disk utilityA disk utility is a utility program that allows a user to perform various functions on a computer disk, such as disk partitioning and logical volume management, as well as multiple smaller tasks such as changing drive letters and other mount points, renaming volumes, disk checking, and disk formatting, which are otherwise handled separately by multiple other built-in commands. Each operating system (OS) has its own basic disk utility, and there are also separate programs which can recognize and adjust the different s of multiple OSes.
DemandIn economics, demand is the quantity of a good that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices during a given time. The relationship between price and quantity demand is also called the demand curve. Demand for a specific item is a function of an item's perceived necessity, price, perceived quality, convenience, available alternatives, purchasers' disposable income and tastes, and many other options. Innumerable factors and circumstances affect a consumer's willingness or to buy a good.
Law of demandIn microeconomics, the law of demand is a fundamental principle which states that there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded. In other words, "conditional on all else being equal, as the price of a good increases (↑), quantity demanded will decrease (↓); conversely, as the price of a good decreases (↓), quantity demanded will increase (↑)". Alfred Marshall worded this as: "When we say that a person's demand for anything increases, we mean that he will buy more of it than he would before at the same price, and that he will buy as much of it as before at a higher price".
Demand curveIn a demand schedule, a demand curve is a graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity (the y-axis) and the quantity of that commodity that is demanded at that price (the x-axis). Demand curves can be used either for the price-quantity relationship for an individual consumer (an individual demand curve), or for all consumers in a particular market (a market demand curve). It is generally assumed that demand curves slope down, as shown in the adjacent image.
Advanced FormatAdvanced Format (AF) is any disk sector format used to store data on magnetic disks in hard disk drives (HDDs) that exceeds 528 bytes per sector, frequently 4096, 4112, 4160, or 4224-byte (4 KB) sectors. Larger sectors of an Advanced Format Drive (AFD) enable the integration of stronger error correction algorithms to maintain data integrity at higher storage densities. The use of long data sectors was suggested in 1998 in a technical paper issued by the National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) calling attention to the conflict between continuing increases in areal density and the traditional 512-byte-per-sector format used in hard disk drives.
Cloud storageCloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools, said to be on "the cloud". The physical storage spans multiple servers (sometimes in multiple locations), and the physical environment is typically owned and managed by a hosting company. These cloud storage providers are responsible for keeping the data available and accessible, and the physical environment secured, protected, and running. People and organizations buy or lease storage capacity from the providers to store user, organization, or application data.