spin up
See also: spinup
English
Verb
spin up (third-person singular simple present spins up, present participle spinning up, simple past and past participle spun up)
- (computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.
- 1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers (volume 6, page 222)
- Plated hard disk surfaces are actually harder and more scratch resistant than read-write heads are. The hard magnetic medium effectively protects itself from head crashes caused by contaminants and the drive's spinning up or down.
- 2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf (page 28)
- The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.
- 1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers (volume 6, page 222)
- (computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.
- We spun up a virtual server in the cloud to handle the additional load.
Antonyms
- spin down
Anagrams
- pin-ups, pinups