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  2. Hard disk drive interface - Wikipedia

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    The earliest hard disk drive (HDD) interfaces were bit serial data interfaces that connected an HDD to a controller with two cables, one for control and one for data. [a] An additional cable was used for power, initially frequently AC but later usually connected directly to a DC power supply unit. The controller provided significant functions ...

  3. Volume (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A volume serial number is a serial number assigned to a disk volume or tape volume. In FAT and NTFS file systems , a volume serial number is a feature used to determine if a disk is present in a drive or not, and to detect if it was exchanged with another one.

  4. vol (command) - Wikipedia

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    Drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number. Note: On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted with MS-DOS version 4.0 or later. OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive. The vol command displays the volume labels ...

  5. label (command) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, label is a command included with some operating systems (e.g., DOS, [1] IBM OS/2, [2] Microsoft Windows [3] and ReactOS [4]).It is used to create, change, or delete a volume label on a logical drive, such as a hard disk partition or a floppy disk.

  6. Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia

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    The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the register-level interface of Serial ATA (SATA) host controllers in a non-implementation-specific manner in its motherboard chipsets.

  7. World Wide Name - Wikipedia

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    The first 2 bytes are either hex 10:00 or 2x:xx (where the x's are vendor-specified) followed by the 3-byte OUI and 3 bytes for a vendor-specified serial number. Thus, the difference between NAA 1 format and NAA 2 format is merely the presence of either a zero pad or an extra 3 nibbles of vendor information.

  8. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...

  9. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk [a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.