<p> {mos_sb_discuss:46} <br /> </p> <p>Hard drives are the storage medium in desktop and laptop computers as well as all servers and mainframes throughout the world. A hard drive is a piece of hardware that reads and writes data on a hard disk. Hard disk drives for personal computers generally have seek times of about 12 milliseconds or less. Many hard drives improve their performance through a technique called caching. </p> http://www.webdotdev.com/nvd Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:19:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 <p> {mos_sb_discuss:46} <br /> </p> <p>Hard drives are the storage medium in desktop and laptop computers as well as all servers and mainframes throughout the world. A hard drive is a piece of hardware that reads and writes data on a hard disk. Hard disk drives for personal computers generally have seek times of about 12 milliseconds or less. Many hard drives improve their performance through a technique called caching. </p>