DS may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for drive select, DS is a primary jumper setting used with IDE disk drives. When a computer hard drive’s jumper set to DS, it has primary precedence in the device chain.

  2. Short for double-sided, DS is a type of floppy diskette. See our double sided disk definition for further information.

  • Hard drive help and support.
  1. DS can also be short for drop shipping or drop ship.

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