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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>disk farm</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="disemvowel.html" title="disemvowel"/><link rel="next" href="display-hack.html" title="display hack"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">disk farm</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disemvowel.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="display-hack.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="disk-farm"/><dt xmlns="" id="disk-farm"><b>disk farm</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp.
<a href="../W/washing-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">washing machine</i></a>s). This term was well established
by 1990, and generalized by about ten years later; see
<a href="../F/farm.html"><i class="glossterm">farm</i></a>. It has become less common as disk strange
densities reached livels where terabytes of storage can easily be fit in a
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