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disk pack

/ˈdɪsk pæk/

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/ˈdɪsk pæk/formaltechnicalobsolete
  • ruИсторическое устройство хранения данных, состоящее из стопки жёстких магнитных дисков, установленных на общем шпинделе, использовавшееся в мейнфреймах и миникомпьютерах до эпохи современных жёстких дисков.

A historical data storage unit consisting of a stack of rigid magnetic disks mounted on a common spindle, used in mainframe and minicomputer systems before the era of modern hard drives.

  1. Removable hard drive unitC1formal

    A stack of magnetic disks mounted together in a single unit, used as a removable data storage device in early computer systems.

    ruСменный блок жёстких дисков

    • The technician loaded the disk pack into the mainframe drive.
    • Disk packs were a common storage medium in the 1970s.
    • Each disk pack could hold several megabytes of data.