May 15, 2003

disk farm

n.

A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp. washing machines). This term was well established by 1990, and generalized by about ten years later; see farm. It has become less common as disk strange densities reached livels where terabytes of storage can easily be fit in a single rack.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:50 AM

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