The SNIA common RAID disk data format (DDF) defines a standard data structure describing how data is formatted across disks in a RAID group. The DDF structure...

Floppy disk format and density refer to the physical and logical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many...

Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash...

floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...

using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for primary data storage as well...

Universal Disk Format (UDF) is an open, vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most...

floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used...

Apple Disk Image is a disk image format commonly used by the macOS operating system. When opened, an Apple Disk Image is mounted as a volume within the...

Advanced Format (AF) is any disk sector format used to store data in HDDs, SSDs and SSHDs that exceeds 528 bytes per sector, frequently 4096, 4112, 4160...

VDHX – Virtual disk created by Hyper-V (Hyper-V runs on Microsoft Windows) PLIST - Short for Property List, stores data in XML-like format on Apple Inc...

as a CD-ROM. Raw disk images are used for forensic purposes. Proprietary formats are typically used by disk imaging software. Disk images were originally...

Disk Drill is a data recovery utility for Windows and macOS developed by Cleverfiles. It was introduced in 2010, and is primarily designed to recover deleted...

Amiga Disk File (ADF) is a file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of floppy disks. It has been around almost as long as the...

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optical technology where the data is recorded in a digital format with optical information. The first commercial digital disk storage device was the IBM...

each sector stores a fixed amount of user-accessible data, traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs), and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and...

This is a list of different floppy disk formats. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware...

extensions or UDF), including the data in its files in binary format, copied exactly as they were stored on the disc. The data inside the ISO image will be...

inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical data storage components...

stored and accessed as a grid of so-called "chunks". The actual data format on disk depends on the compressor and storage plugins selected by the user...

In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, overwritten or formatted data from secondary storage...

The MapInfo TAB format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by Precisely as a...

their associated data formats are standardized by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) in the Common RAID Disk Drive Format (DDF) standard...

VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware...

FDC is responsible for reading data presented from the host computer and converting it to the drive's on-disk format using one of a number of encoding...

Although optical, they normally appear as hard disk drives to an operating system and can be formatted with any file system. Magneto-optical drives were...

Data orientation is the representation of tabular data in a linear memory model such as in-disk or in-memory. The two most common representations are...

MD Data competed in a format war with other disks such as SyQuest's EZ 135, Imation's SuperDisk, and the Iomega Zip. Ultimately neither MD Data nor any...

recording format is a format for encoding data for storage on a storage medium. The format can be container information such as sectors on a disk, or user/audience...

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical...