What Is a 40GB Hard Drive?
A hard drive is a storage device used in most computers. 40 GB is a term that describes the amount of storage space the hard drive has.
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Gigabytes
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40 GB means 40 gigabytes. A gigabyte is a unit of storage meaning one million bytes, or one thousand megabytes. 40 GB can hold a hundreds, or even thousands of text documents and pictures, and hundreds of audio and video files.
Hard Drive
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A hard drive is the component of a computer that stores data, including the operating system, other programs and media files. As of July 2010, most hard drives are magnetic drives store that data on a series of spinning magnetic platters. Solid-state hard drives, which store data on chips of memory, are becoming more popular, but still make up a minority of available drives.
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As of July 2010, a 40 GB hard drive would be a very small drive. Most hard drives are in the hundreds of gigabytes, and many have eclipsed the terabyte (or one thousand gigabyte) barrier. There are even Flash drives that can store more than 40 GB. Today, a 40 GB drive is probably only an auxiliary drive to a much larger drive.
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