The heart of this momentous leap forward in information technology is the standard five-inch compact disk or 12-inch videodisk.

It takes at least a couple of boxes of diskettes, at 10 to a box, to hold the contents of standard 40-megabyte hard disks.

The capacity of the standard 12-inch disk is so great that it includes even pieces in the collection that the gallery has no room to display.

EVER wonder why the audio capacity of a standard compact disk is 74 minutes?

There is the standard removable disk, saving to the hard drive, and saving to a network share.

Hutch came back wearing a wide smile and holding a standard disk.

On most media types including standard magnetic hard disks, once data has been securely deleted it can never be recovered.

While she was transferring a file one day from her home-office computer's hard drive to a standard floppy disk, her system crashed.

At the time of their introduction, they seemed like a miracle - they were smaller than the standard 5.25-inch disks, but they held more data!

The earliest hard disks had been designed to fit into the same bay as the standard 5.25-inch floppy disk.