The Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is an implementation of a logical volume manager for Microsoft Windows NT, developed by Microsoft and Veritas Software....

A logical disk, logical volume or virtual disk (VD or vdisk for short) is a virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more...

other part of the disk. Each partition then appears to the operating system as a distinct "logical" disk that uses part of the actual disk. System administrators...

refer to a logical disk as created on a SAN. Though not technically correct, the term "LUN" is often also used to refer to the logical disk itself. To...

Version 1.3. From 1983 disk-equipped TRS-80 Model 4 computers used TRSDOS Version 6, which was a development of Model III LDOS by Logical Systems, Inc. This...

the logical file structure can be rebuilt in most instances. Most physical damage cannot be repaired by end users. For example, opening a hard disk drive...

presenting a logical view of the physical storage resources to" a host computer system, "treating all storage media (hard disk, optical disk, tape, etc...

on-disk and in-memory data structures holding the address is typically 32 or 64 bits. Most hard disk drives released after 1996 implement logical block...

with physical volumes (PVs), which can be either hard disks, hard disk partitions, or Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) of an external storage device. Volume...

In data storage, disk mirroring is the replication of logical disk volumes onto separate physical hard disks in real time to ensure continuous availability...

for the following purposes: Creating single logical volumes of multiple physical volumes or entire hard disks (somewhat similar to RAID 0, but more similar...

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...

by Disk Utility include: Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility...

various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for the creation of logical disks,software development, testing environments, and data management. They...

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

RAID (/reɪd/; redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines...

A disk utility is a utility program that allows a user to perform various functions on a computer disk, such as disk partitioning and logical volume management...

of a hard disk. Although a volume might be different from a physical disk drive, it can still be accessed with an operating system's logical interface...

Disk aggregation is the abstraction of two or more hard disks, disk partitions, or other logical volumes into a single logical disk. This is done to:...

addressing the sector is the smallest unit. Disk controllers can introduce address translations to map logical to physical positions, e.g., zone bit recording...

partition boot record (EPBR), is a descriptor for a logical partition under the common DOS disk drive partitioning system. In that system, when one (and...

This is a list of utilities for performing disk partitioning....

A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information...

major hard disk drive manufacturers began releasing hard disk drive platforms using the Advanced Format of 4096 byte logical blocks. Floppy disks generally...

A disk array controller is a device that manages the physical disk drives and presents them to the computer as logical units. It often implements hardware...

it is a popular method for combining multiple physical disk drives into a single logical disk. It provides no data redundancy. Drives are merely concatenated...

64-bit rather than 32-bit logical block addresses (LBA) for blocks on a storage device. The larger LBA size supports larger disks. Some BIOSes support GPT...

the Logical Disk Manager and the diskpart command line tool for dynamic storage. All versions of Windows 2000 support three types of dynamic disk volumes...

Disk packs and disk cartridges were early forms of removable media for computer data storage, introduced in the 1960s. A disk pack is a layered grouping...

called semiconductor storage device, solid-state device, or solid-state disk. SSDs rely on non-volatile memory, typically NAND flash, to store data in...