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2. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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   Flash-based solid-state drives can be used to create network appliances from general-purpose personal computer hardware. A write protected flash drive containing the operating system and application software can substitute for larger, less reliable disk drives or CD-ROMs. Appliances built this way can provide an inexpensive alternative to ...

3. 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 ...

4. Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools - Wikipedia

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   Fixed drives USB, eSATA and removable drives RAID support [a] Shows S.M.A.R.T. attributes Hard drive self-testing Notification Notes AIDA64: Windows: Trialware [1] GUI IDE(PATA), SATA, NVMe eSATA, USB Some RAID controllers Yes No Monitoring only available in the Business Edition [2]

5. U3 (software) - Wikipedia

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   U3 was a joint venture between SanDisk and M-Systems, [1] producing a proprietary method of launching Windows software from special USB flash drives. Flash drives adhering to the U3 specification are termed "U3 smart drives". U3 smart drives come preinstalled with the U3 Launchpad.

6. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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   The table below identifies each notable operating system and the first version supporting the command. Additionally, older solid-state drives designed before the addition of the TRIM command to the ATA standard will need firmware updates, otherwise the new command will be ignored. However, not every drive can be upgraded to support trimming.

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

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   Drives do not support all attribute codes (sometimes abbreviated as "ID", for "identifier", in tables). Some codes are specific to particular drive types (magnetic platter, flash, SSD). Drives may use different codes for the same parameter, e.g., see codes 193 and 225.