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  2. 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 ...

  3. Euro Truck Simulator - Wikipedia

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    Euro Truck Simulator (known as Big Rig Europe in North America) is a 2008 truck simulation game developed and published by SCS Software.The game is set in a scaled-down rendition of Europe, from the United Kingdom and Portugal to Poland and the Czech Republic, where players drive a variety of semi-trucks and trailers across the continent, visiting the continent's major cities, picking up and ...

  4. Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Wikipedia

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    Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a truck driving simulator with elements of a business simulation game.Players drive articulated trucks in an open world rendition of Europe, delivering loads to a designated location in order to be compensated with money and experience points.

  5. IOPS - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Enterprise class SATA HDDs, such as the Western Digital Raptor and Seagate Barracuda NL will improve by nearly 100% with deep queues. [4] High-end SCSI drives more commonly found in servers, generally show much greater improvement, with the Seagate Savvio exceeding 400 IOPS—more than doubling its performance.

  6. Host protected area - Wikipedia

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    The IDE controller has registers that contain data that can be queried using ATA commands. The data returned gives information about the drive attached to the controller. There are three ATA commands involved in creating and using a host protected a

  7. 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 ...

  8. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    In 1964, Burroughs introduced the B-475 disk drive, with a head per track, as part of the B5500. Burroughs B-475 Disk Drive (circled) In 1970, IBM introduced the 2305 disk drive, with a head per track. In June it introduce the 3330 Direct Access Storage Facility, code-named Merlin. Its removable disk packs could hold 100 MB.

  9. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The support for TRIM also varies by what the particular filesystem driver on the operating system is capable of, since only a program with an understanding of what parts of the disk are free space can safely issue the command, and on the system level this ability tends to lie in the filesystem driver itself.