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hard drive capacity
The amount of storage on a hard disk, measured in gigabytes. Your capacity requirement is derived from the size of your applications, but mostly the amount of data you need to store. Multimedia...
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Definition: hard drive capacity
The amount of storage on a hard disk, measured in gigabytes. Your capacity requirement is derived from the size of your applications, but mostly the amount of data you need to store. Multimedia files such as graphics, animations and video take up considerably more space than text. See byte, hard drive and hard disk.
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