disk farm

2 definitions found

disk farm - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  disk farm
  
     <jargon> (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with
     disk drives (especially washing machines).
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-03-27)
  

disk farm - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  disk farm
   n.
  
     A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp. washing machine
     s). 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.