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  2. FitGirl Repacks - Wikipedia

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    FitGirl Repacks is a website distributing pirated video games. FitGirl Repacks is known for "repacking" games – compressing them significantly so they can be downloaded and shared more efficiently. [2] [3] TorrentFreak listed FitGirl Repacks at sixth in 2024 [4] and at ninth in 2020's Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites lists. [5]

  3. Error recovery control - Wikipedia

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    The included TLER-ON.BAT will set the Read & Write TLER time to seven seconds. It is possible to use the WDTLER.EXE utility directly with the -r# -w# parameters for a custom timeout. Western Digital claims that using the WDTLER.EXE utility on newer drives can damage the firmware and make the disk unusable. The utility is no longer available ...

  4. Video game piracy - Wikipedia

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    A 2016 protest in Dhaka against DRM. The use of copy protection has been a commonplace throughout the history of video games. Early copy protection measures for video games included Lenslok, code wheels, and special instructions that would require the player to own the manual.

  5. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    If the disk drive detects multiple read errors on a sector it may make a copy of the failing sector on another part of the disk, by remapping the failed sector of the disk to a spare sector without the involvement of the operating system (though this may be delayed until the next write to the sector).

  6. Write once read many - Wikipedia

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    WORM drives preceded the invention of the CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R.An example was the IBM 3363. [1] These drives typically used either a 5.1 in (13 cm) or a 12 in (30 cm) disc in a cartridge, with an ablative optical layer that could be written to only once, and were often used in places like libraries that needed to store large amounts of data.

  7. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Read/write head from circa-1998 Fujitsu 3.5" hard disk (approx. 2.0 mm x 3.0 mm) Microphotograph of an older generation hard disk drive head and slider (1990s) Noises from an old hard drive while attempting to read data from bad sectors. During normal operation, heads in HDDs fly above the data recorded on the disks.

  8. Disk Drill - Wikipedia

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    The core of Disk Drill is a Recovery Vault technology which allows to recover data from a medium that was secured by Recovery Vault beforehand. [5] [6] Recovery Vault runs as a background service and remembers all metadata and properties of the deleted data, making it possible to restore deleted files with their original file names and location.

  9. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    Data transfer rate (read/write) can be measured by writing a large file to disk using special file-generator tools, then reading back the file. Transfer rate can be influenced by file system fragmentation and the layout of the files. [129] HDD data transfer rate depends upon the rotational speed of the platters and the data recording density.