Disk

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• A storage medium capable of storing large amounts of data. Disk types include magnetic disks (both hard disks and floppy disks) and optical disks.^[1]

• A magnetic floppy or hard disk.^[2]

• Round, flat storage media with layers of material which enable the recording of data.^[3]

• It may be a floppy disk, or it may be a hard disk. Either way, it is a magnetic storage medium on which data is digitally stored. A disc may also refer to a CD-ROM.^[4]

See also

• CD
• CD-R
• CD-ROM
• CD-RW
• Disc
• Diskette
• Disk
• DVD
• DVD-ROM
• Floppy disk
• Hard disk
• Hard drive
• Jaz disk
• Magnetic disk
• Magnetic storage media
• Media
• Optical disk
• Storage media
• WORM disk
• Zip disk

Footnotes

1. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
2. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.
3. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.
4. ^  Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms.