Maximum Maytag mode




<storage, humour> (From the US brand of washing machine) What a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk 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.

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Mauchly, John W.
mawk
maximal free expression
maximin
MAXIMOP
maximum seek time
maximum segment size
Maximum Transmission Unit
Maxis Software
MB