disk controller


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Noun1.disk controller - (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive
controller, control - a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
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The Cobra PXIe disk controller is the latest in a series of this vendor's line of high-speed StreamStor PCI Express disk controllers for recording and playback of digital data.
Bigger concern with Venom is that the bug resides in the open-source hypervisor QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC).It is often installed by default in a number of virtualized infrastructures using Xen, QEMU, and KVM, as per crowdstrike, a threat
The Fixstars 13000M uses a specialized disk controller designed by the company and 15nm Toshiba MLC NAND memory.
Adams discovered a floppy disk controller malfunction in many personal computers and patented several ways to fix the bug in the 1980s.
The server was fitted with five internal SAS 2.5" disks for the operating system and webserver log files, and used 48 external 3.5" SAS disks in four FibreCAT SX40 storage subsystems connected to a LSI MegaRAID SAS8880E PCIe disk controller for the workload files.
The system has a capacity of 8TB and features 4 1Gb/s ethernet ports and a disk controller that can support most RAID implementations.
In essence, the secondary drive is an exact duplicate of the primary drive, and if either drive is damaged or suffers from a disk crash, the hard disk controller will automatically switch to the other, undamaged drive and warn you.
Read channels are the centerpiece of custom storage systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), which combine multiple drive functions - including hard disk controller, serial interface and memory - in a single chip.
The drive features Native Command Queuing (NCQ), an important feature that enables the hard disk controller to intelligently and simultaneously queue and reorder up to 32 instructions, resulting in a significant improvement in overall data transfer rates.
The disk controller acts as the interface point between the drives, data bus and system bus.