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  2. Optical disc image - Wikipedia

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    ISO 9660, UDF. An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. [3] ISO images contain the binary image of an optical media file system (usually ISO 9660 ...

  3. Disk storage - Wikipedia

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    Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk. The recording employs various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to the disk's surface layer. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD), containing one or more ...

  4. Non-volatile memory - Wikipedia

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    e. Non-volatile memory (NVM) or non-volatile storage is a type of computer memory that can retain stored information even after power is removed. In contrast, volatile memory needs constant power in order to retain data. Non-volatile memory typically refers to storage in semiconductor memory chips, which store data in floating-gate memory cells ...

  5. RAR (file format) - Wikipedia

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    Software is available for Microsoft Windows (named WinRAR), Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Android; archive extraction is supported natively in ChromeOS.WinRAR supports the Windows graphical user interface (GUI); other versions named RAR run as console commands.

  6. Removable media - Wikipedia

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    The earliest form of removable media, punched cards and tapes, predates the electronic computer by centuries, with the Jacquard loom of 1801 using interlinked cards to control the machine. [7] This followed a loom made by Basile Bouchon in 1725 that used paper tape for its instructions. [8] Punched tape was later used in Colossus, the first ...

  7. File system - Wikipedia

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    A local file system is a capability of an operating system that services the applications running on the same computer. [1][2] A distributed file system is a protocol that provides file access between networked computers. A file system provides a data storage service that allows applications to share mass storage.

  8. Data recovery - Wikipedia

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    Data recovery. In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way. [1] The data is most often salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk ...

  9. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    Optical disc drive. In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from certain discs, while other drives can both read and record.