hard drives

基本解释

Over the past decades, the capacity, or "size," of hard drives have exploded.
在过去的几十年中，硬盘驱动器的容量或尺寸已经飞速发展。
With it you can back up your disk to network locations, optical and removable media, and other hard drives.
有了它，你可以备份你的磁盘到网络、光学和可移动媒介上，或者是其他硬盘驱动器上。
With a VM system, you have two primary areas that store information about the active applications and the data it uses -- the physical random access memory (RAM) and space allocated on hard drives.
使用 VM 系统，您有两个主要区域来存储有关活动应用程序及其使用的数据的信息——物理随机访问存储器 (RAM) 和硬盘驱动器上分配的空间。

Computers and hard drives in particular are being scrutinized in fine detail.
But in hard drives where we actually have these moving platters, here is in fact, how we get from electricity and magnetism to those zeros and ones.
但是在传统硬盘中我们确实有高速运转的磁盘，这就是事实，但问题是我们如何,把电磁信号转化为0和1的。
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But what's amazing is that the hard drives we have today in a desktop or in a laptop, a hard drive and a laptop is only about--yey big!
现在你可能对在笔记本或者,台式机中存在的硬盘更感兴趣，其实硬盘仅仅是容量大了一些！
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The Pogoplug is a device that connects up to 4 external hard drives to the Internet.
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