2007-01-09 22:53:25 · 5 answers · asked by munro 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Because it will give you a hard time and drive you up the wall when fails... LoL
2007-01-09 23:31:01 · answer #1 · answered by aZhuRa 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because old PC's used floppy disks (the big ones, not the hard little ones). I don't know why it's called a drive though. I guess it's because the whole apparatus, including the disk and the mechanism for reading it, is in one unit. Have a nice day!
2007-01-10 07:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by anonymous 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's because all the magnetic plates inside it are hard. Before hard drives, there were storage devices called "floppy disks" which fit into "floppy drives". They were called "floppy disks" because the magnetic plates inside the disks were floppy (flexible.) The next generation had several hard disks inside a container. These were called "hard disk drives" because the disks inside the drive were not flexible.
2007-01-10 07:02:31 · answer #3 · answered by One 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard drive is called so because it is secondary storage or permanent storage attached with the CPU. You can store something on Hard drive and retrieve it when you want.
On the Contrary the Memory or RAM attached associated with CPU is Volatile memory. All the data which is written on RAM goes off when Power goes off.
2007-01-10 07:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because the platters are solid or hard - as opposed to a floppy disc that is like a foil or floppy
2007-01-10 06:57:10 · answer #5 · answered by Ruthie Baby 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋