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  2. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    Software reports hard disk drive or memory capacity in different forms using either decimal or binary prefixes. The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems uses the binary convention when reporting storage capacity, so an HDD offered by its manufacturer as a 1 TB drive is reported by these operating systems as a 931 GB HDD.

  3. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    The storage limit of IDE standard for harddisks in 1986, also the volume size limit for the FAT16B file system (with 32 KiB clusters) released in 1987 as well as the maximum file size (2 GiB-1) in DOS operating systems prior to the introduction of large file support in DOS 7.10 (1997).

  4. Density (computer storage) - Wikipedia

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    Single-layer HD DVD and Blu-ray disks offer densities around 7.5 Gbit/in 2 and 12.5 Gbit/in 2, respectively. When introduced in 1982 CDs had considerably higher densities than hard disk drives, but hard disk drives have since advanced much more quickly and eclipsed optical media in both areal density and capacity per device.

  5. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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    On SCSI hard disk drives, the SCSI controller can directly control spin up and spin down of the drives. Some Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives support power-up in standby (PUIS): each drive does not spin up until the controller or system BIOS issues a specific command to do so. This allows the system to be set up to ...

  6. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, hard-disk manufacturers introduced drives with 4,096‑byte sectors (Advanced Format). [3] For compatibility with legacy hardware and software, those drives include an emulation technology ( 512e ) that presents 512‑byte sectors to the entity accessing the hard drive, despite their underlying 4,096‑byte physical sectors. [ 4 ]

  7. Disk buffer - Wikipedia

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    In computer storage, a disk buffer (often ambiguously called a disk cache or a cache buffer) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. [1] Modern hard disk drives come with 8 to 256 ...

  8. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    Prior to version 7, Microsoft Windows did not take any specific measures to support solid state drives. From Windows 7, the standard NTFS file system provides support for the TRIM command. [198] By default, Windows 7 and newer versions execute TRIM commands automatically if the device is detected to be a solid-state drive.

  9. Comparison of file systems - Wikipedia

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    Version 6 Unix file system (V6FS) Bell Labs: 1972 Version 6 Unix: RT-11 file system DEC: 1973 RT-11: Disk Operating System GEC: 1973 Core Operating System CP/M file system: Digital Research (Gary Kildall) 1974 CP/M [1] [2] ODS-1: DEC: 1975 RSX-11: GEC DOS filing system extended GEC: 1977 OS4000: FAT (8-bit) Microsoft (Marc McDonald) for NCR: 1977