• In block storage devices such as hard disk drives, interleaving is a technique used to improve slow system performance by putting data accessed sequentially...
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  • blocks on disk storage Interleaved posting, an e-mail posting style Interleaving (bitmaps), a technique for encoding bitmapped images Interleaving the bits...
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  • Interleaving introduced gaps between data sectors to allow time for slow equipment to get ready to read the next block of data. Without interleaving,...
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    Data striping (redirect from Disk striping)
    and grid-oriented storage, and RAM in some systems. One method of striping is done by interleaving sequential segments on storage devices in a round-robin...
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  • 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...
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    In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. For most disks, each sector stores a fixed amount of...
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    speeds and higher endurance through different data storage mechanisms. Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs have no moving parts, allowing...
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    Compact disc (redirect from Compact disk)
    general-purpose data storage under the CD-ROM format, which initially offered more capacity than contemporary personal computer hard disk drives. Additional...
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    commercial software is now rare. The earliest theoretical work on optical disc storage was done by independent researchers in the United States including David...
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  • while LDCs can have subexponential lengths. Interleaving is frequently used in digital communication and storage systems to improve the performance of forward...
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    inside the memory, in contrast with other direct-access data storage media (such as hard disks and magnetic tape), where the time required to read and write...
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    Drum memory (redirect from Drum storage)
    timing-compensation, called the "skip factor" or "interleaving", was used for many years in storage memory controllers. Tauschek's original drum memory...
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    Parallel ATA (category Computer storage buses)
    and CD or DVD drives. The connection is used for storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, optical disc drives, and tape drives in...
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  • Apple DOS (category Disk operating systems)
    tapes for data storage and retrieval. When Apple Computer introduced the Apple II in April 1977, the new computer had no disk drive or disk operating system...
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    has a direct connection for a cassette recorder for data storage but two 3.5 inch floppy disk drives can be installed within the case as well or externally...
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  • Distribution Media Format (category Floppy disk computer storage)
    format for floppy disks that Microsoft used to distribute software. It allowed the disk to contain 1680 KiB of data on a 31⁄2-inch disk, instead of the...
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    CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk. Initially...
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    data-storage systems Comparison of video player software: Optical media ability, for a list of software BD video players Digital 3D and 3D television Disk-drive...
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  • SpinRite (category Hard disk software)
    SpinRite is a computer program for scanning RAS Random Access Storage devices such as hard disks, reading and rewriting data to resolve and retrieve data that...
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    floppy disk drive (720 KB) was installed as a mass storage device. An external 31⁄2-inch floppy disk drive with 720 KB (FD720), a 51⁄4-inch floppy disk drive...
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    is a physical to logical track mapping to effect a 2:1 sector interleaving. The disks were formatted with the physical sectors in order numbered 1 to...
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    Optical Disk Recording". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 19: 751–764. Retrieved 2018-02-05. Karl Paulsen. "Coding for Magnetic Storage Mediums"...
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  • "What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?". VMware. "VMware Virtual Disks Virtual Disk Format 1.1". VMware. "CRX Package Format". chrome.com. "CRX Package...
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    Commodore 1541 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
    disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The best-known floppy disk drive...
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    8 volt unbuffered, asymmetric or interleaved operation supported. Storage: 2 internal SATA drive bays Accepts 2.5" hard disk drives and solid-state drives...
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    computer to be read out. Such an attack was demonstrated to circumvent popular disk encryption systems, such as the open source TrueCrypt, Microsoft's BitLocker...
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  • Modified frequency modulation (category Rotating disc computer storage media)
    on most floppy disks and some hard disk drives. It was first introduced on hard disks in 1970 with the IBM 3330 and then in floppy disk drives beginning...
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    First, the process is "created" by being loaded from a secondary storage device (hard disk drive, CD-ROM, etc.) into main memory. After that the process...
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    Performance is improved if 2-way interleaving is used (giving 512 MB or 2 GB) and maximum performance is achieved with 4-way interleaving, in which case all 16 memory...
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  • relatively slow I/O data transfer. Many hardware systems use DMA, including disk drive controllers, graphics cards, network cards and sound cards. DMA is...
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