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• disk farm: n. (also {laundromat}) A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp.
  {washing machine}s). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• laundromat n. Syn. disk farm; see washing machine.
• walking drives n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky washing machines.
  Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• usty memory n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in washing machines). Compare donuts....
• walking drives: n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s.
  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• maximum Maytag mode n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load.
  If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives....
• usty memory: n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in {washing machine}s)....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....