Disk density is a capacity designation on magnetic storage, usually floppy disks. Each designation describes a set of characteristics that can affect the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and...
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stars in the galactic disk orbit at varying speeds, which depend on their distance to the galaxy center. The presence of spiral density waves in galaxies...
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higher densities than hard disk drives, but hard disk drives have since advanced much more quickly and eclipsed optical media in both areal density and capacity...
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participants collected disks from a board of increasing disk density. Thus, the resulting formulae are often referred to as Holling's Disk Equations. The type...
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the drive's on-disk format using one of a number of encoding schemes, like FM encoding (single density) or MFM encoding (double density), and reading those...
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magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive...
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high density Macintosh format disks. dd (Unix) Disk image Disk storage Don't Copy That Floppy Floppy disk controller Floppy disk format Floppy disk hardware...
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Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped...
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The area density (also known as areal density, surface density, superficial density, areic density, column density, or density thickness) of a two-dimensional...
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to enable higher areal density. The flying height of the head is controlled by the design of an air bearing etched onto the disk-facing surface of the...
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able to format regular floppy disks to 32 MB capacity. However, this higher density comes at a price – the entire disk must be rewritten any time a change...
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digital disk storage device was the IBM 350 which shipped in 1956 as a part of the IBM 305 RAMAC computing system. The random-access, low-density storage...
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A hard disk drive platter or hard disk is the circular magnetic disk on which digital data is stored in a hard disk drive. The rigid nature of the platters...
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Atari DOS (redirect from DISK OPERATING SYSTEM II VERSION 2.0S)
0S. Version 2.0S was for single-density disks, 2.0D was for double-density disks. 2.0D shipped with the 815 Dual Disk Drive, which was both expensive...
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cylinder 0 to 79 of a standard 3.5-inch (89 mm) double-density floppy disk, also called an 880 KiB disk in Amiga terms. The size of an ADF will vary depending...
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Ae/Be star. The protoplanetary disk may not be considered an accretion disk; while the two are similar, an accretion disk is hotter and spins much faster;...
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bit. For this reason, MFM disks are typically known as "double density", while the earlier FM became known as "single density". MFM is used with a data...
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USB flash drive (redirect from Disk on key)
supplementary back-ups, and transferring of computer files. Compared with floppy disks or CDs, they are smaller, faster, have significantly more capacity, and...
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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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filesystems require a compatible disk controller (PROM update) and Apple DOS 3.3 or later. Apple II double-density 31⁄2-inch (90 mm) drives use variable...
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Non-RAID drive architectures (redirect from Just a bunch of disks)
increased storage density and decreased cost are traded for increased latency and decreased redundancy. JBOD (just a bunch of disks or just a bunch of...
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In geometry, a disk (also spelled disc) is the region in a plane bounded by a circle. A disk is said to be closed if it contains the circle that constitutes...
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The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike...
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The IBM eXtended Density Format (XDF) is a way of superformatting standard high-density 3½-inch and 5¼-inch floppy disks to larger-than-standard capacities...
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Group coded recording (redirect from Hard disk GCR)
hard disks or microcomputer floppy disks until the late 1980s. GCR is a modified form of a NRZI code, but necessarily with a higher transition density. Group...
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Commodore 8050 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
most other Commodore disk drives, these drives utilize zone bit recording to maintain an average bit density across the entire disk. Formatted capacity...
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