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• 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 sector —    Magnetic disks are typically divided into tracks, each of which contains a number of sectors. A sector typically contains a predetermined amount of data, such as 256 bytes …   IT glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations

• Disk encryption theory — Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage media is a sector addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem. For discussion of different software packages and… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• Sector — may refer to: * Sector, Devon, a location in the county of Devon in south western England * Sector, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America * Sector (economic): one of several… …   Wikipedia

• Disk image — CD image redirects here. For ISO 9660 image files, see ISO image. A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, tape drive,… …   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

• Sector slipping — is a technique used to deal with defective sectors in hard disk drives. Due to the volatility of hard disks from their moving parts and low tolerances some sectors become defective. Defective sectors can even come on hard disks from the factory… …   Wikipedia

• Disk Copy Fast — (DCF) is a file archiver software utility that creates disk images of floppy disks. It also refers to the file format used to encode the disk image files created. These image files typically use the file extension .DCF . File format information… …   Wikipedia

• Disk storage — or disc storage is a general category of storage mechanisms, in which data are digitally recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical methods on a surface layer deposited of one or more planar, round and rotating disks (or… …   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