Definition of Disk pack

1. Noun. (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device.

Exact synonyms: Disc Pack
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Generic synonyms: Pack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disk Pack

disk cache
disk clutch
disk controller
disk disease
disk drive
disk drives
disk error
disk file
disk harrow
disk image
disk images
disk jockey
disk kidney
disk operating system
disk overhead
disk pack (current term)
disk sensitivity method
disk shape
disk space
disk syndrome
diskectomies
diskectomy
disked
diskette
diskettes
diskindness
diskindnesses
disking
diskitis
diskless

Literary usage of Disk pack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"Hard Disks The first hard disk was developed by IBM, whose project developers called it a Winchester It amounted to a sealed disk pack. ..."

2. Advisory Memorandum on Office Automation Security Guideline (1993)
"If a fixed medium (for example, a hard, or Winchester, disk) is operative, an approved method of declassifying the disk pack is to employ an overwrite ..."

3. A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology by Roy A. Allan (2001)
"IBM announced a 14 inch diameter hard disk drive with a removable disk-pack in October 1962. Improvements in memory technology were important in advancing ..."

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