Disk-like devices

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• Disk-drive performance characteristics — are the attributes which control the time it takes to transfer (read or write) data between a computer and a data storage device (most typically disk storage) starting with the initial command from the computer or host until the storage device… …   Wikipedia

• Disk II — drives. The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem was a 5¼ inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak and manufactured by Apple Computer. It was first introduced in 1978 at a retail price of US$495 for pre order; it was later sold for $595… …   Wikipedia

• Disk cloning — is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an image file. Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded with the contents of… …   Wikipedia

• Disk Overhead — is the reason why a computer hard drive or storage device s capacity may show its capacity as different from its actual capacity.ExampleFor example, a computer company sells a hard drive that is marked as 200 gigabytes. When connected to a… …   Wikipedia

• Disk enclosure — A 3.5 USB/FireWire hard disk enclosure A disk enclosure is essentially a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures… …   Wikipedia

• Disk formatting — Formatting a hard drive using MS DOS Disk formatting is the process of preparing a hard disk drive or flexible disk medium for data storage. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems. The formatting… …   Wikipedia

• Disk editor — A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data (at character or hexadecimal, byte levels) on disk drives (e.g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks); as such, they are… …   Wikipedia

• Disk sector — Figure 1. Disk structures: (A) Track (B) Geometrical sector (C) Track sector (D) Cluster In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of user data.… …   Wikipedia

• Disk partitioning — GParted is a popular utility used for disk partitioning Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.… …   Wikipedia

• Disk buffer — Not to be confused with page cache. The disk buffer sits on the controller board of the hard drive. In computer storage, disk buffer (often ambiguously[citation needed] called disk cache …   Wikipedia

• Hard disk drive — Hard drive redirects here. For other uses, see Hard drive (disambiguation). Hard disk drive Mechanical interior of a modern hard disk drive Date invented 24 December 1954 [1] …   Wikipedia