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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report? [duplicate]
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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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What's the difference between sector interleave and sector skew, and are both ever used on the same disk?
In reading about the geometries and layouts of different disks and filesystems in various OSes, or at least floppies from the late '70s through the mid '90s where I was focusing, I noticed the terms &...
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In reference to disks "allocation unit", "block", and "cluster" synonyms?
In the context of spinning disk media such as floppy and hard disks, do these terms all refer to the same underlying concept, differing only by which term is used by which platform?
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What terms are used to classify SATA headers?
Background: I'm currently trying to replace a SATA header on a solid-state drive. It has a specific header format, and inadvertently buying the wrong one is a waste of time and money, so I'm ...
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Is it technically correct to call hard disk drives or an SSD, also RAM memory types (Random Access Memory) [closed]
In computer jargon, is it correct to call drives of various types (e.g. hard disk, SSD, DVD) a type of random access memory (RAM)?
From what I understand RAM is a device that holds information that ...
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What is "2LUN" mode in connection with RAID?
I've came across RAID products that also list JBOD (just a bunch of disks) mode and 2LUN mode. What the heck is 2LUN mode?
I could not find a description; the closest thing seems to be LUN 'logical ...
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Does external HDD RAID closure exists not primarily for portability?
Is there such a class of hardware in which you can install multiple HDDs set up as RAID, while the unit maintains their ventilation and power consumption, independently of a computer?
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When referring to filesystems and disks, are "disk sectors", "disk blocks", "chunk size", and "disk records" the same thing?
I'm pretty sure that a sector is basically a block, but I was moreso confused about chunk sizes and especially records. Some system calls require that your area in memory that buffers data from disk ...
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What does "LFF SATA" mean?
I've heard of SATA, but "LFF SATA" as listed on HP's specs page (archive) is a new one for me.
What does the "LFF" bit mean?
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Harddrive 9 in 1 capacity? What does that mean?
I have to define some stuff for my operating systems class based on a computer ad, and it says the hard disk capacity is "9-in-1." What does that mean?
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What does the condition "new pull" mean?
I'm looking for a hard drive, and some of the conditions are listed as "New Pull" or "System Pull". I figure the System Pull means "taken from a computer and now sold separately" but what does New ...
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