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  2. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Low-level formatting software from 1987 to find highest performance interleave choice for 10 MB IBM PC XT hard disk drive. Sector interleave is a mostly obsolete device characteristic related to data rate, dating back to when computers were too slow to be able to read large continuous streams of data.

  3. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - Wikipedia

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    Hard disk and other storage drives are subject to failures (see hard disk drive failure) which can be classified into two basic classes: Predictable failures which result from slow processes such as mechanical wear and gradual degradation of storage surfaces. Monitoring can determine when such failures are becoming more likely.

  4. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    Big Rigs was released in a pre-alpha state, and it lacks any type of collision detection, allowing players to drive through other vehicles and obstacles, while its physics system is so problematic that it allows players to drive up a vertical incline or accelerate to a maximum speed of 1.23 × 10 37 miles per hour (1.98 × 10 37 kilometres per ...

  5. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields , or suffering a sharp impact or ...

  6. Bad sector - Wikipedia

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    Hard disk reader. A bad sector in computing is a disk sector on a disk storage unit that is unreadable. Upon taking damage, all information stored on that sector is lost. When a bad sector is found and marked, the operating system like Windows or Linux will skip it in the future. Bad sectors are a threat to information security in the sense of ...

  7. Xbox 360 technical specifications - Wikipedia

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    The Xbox 360 video game console features a port on the top when vertical (left side when horizontal) to which a custom-housed hard disk drive unit can be attached in sizes of either 20, 60, 120, 250, 320, 500 GB; [1] and as of April 2015 all 2.5" SATA Hard Drives up to 2 TB, [2] [3] the user can use the format option from system settings to utilize the new HDD.

  8. Hard disk drive interface - Wikipedia

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    Several Parallel ATA hard disk drives. Parallel ATA, originally IDE and then standardized under the name AT Attachment (ATA), with the alias P-ATA or PATA retroactively added upon introduction of the new variant Serial ATA. The original name (circa 1986) reflected the integration of the controller with the hard drive itself.

  9. Internal hard drive defect management - Wikipedia

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    Internal hard drive defect management is a system present in hard drives for handling of bad sectors.The systems are generally proprietary and vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but typically consist of a "P" (for "permanent" or "primary") list of bad sectors detected in the manufacturing stage and a "G" (for "growth") list of bad sectors that crop up after manufacturing. [1]