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Disk Overhead — is the reason why a computer hard drive or storage device s capacity may show its capacity as different from its actual capacity.ExampleFor example, a computer company sells a hard drive that is marked as 200 gigabytes. When connected to a… … Wikipedia
Disk partitioning — GParted is a popular utility used for disk partitioning Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.… … Wikipedia
Circle of confusion — For the closely related topic in microscopy, see Point spread function. In optics, a circle of confusion is an optical spot caused by a cone of light rays from a lens not coming to a perfect focus when imaging a point source. It is also known as… … Wikipedia
Protoplanetary disk — A protoplanetary disk (or proplyd) is a rotating circumstellar disk of dense gas surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star or Herbig star. The protoplanetary disk may be considered an accretion disk because gaseous material may be… … Wikipedia
Hard disk drive — Hard drive redirects here. For other uses, see Hard drive (disambiguation). Hard disk drive Mechanical interior of a modern hard disk drive Date invented 24 December 1954 [1] … Wikipedia
Logical Disk Manager — The Logical Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc) is an implementation of a logical volume manager for Microsoft Windows NT, developed by Microsoft and Veritas Software. It was introduced with the Windows 2000 operating system, and is supported in Windows… … Wikipedia
Floppy disk format — and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many popular and rare floppy disk types, densities, and formats used in computing, leading to much confusion over… … Wikipedia
Slice (disk) — In Sun Microsystems Solaris computer operating system, disk partitions are sometimes known as slices. This is a conceptual reference to the slicing of a cake into several pieces. A slice is composed of a contiguous range of blocks on a disk.The… … Wikipedia
Digital Versatile Disk — DVD Pour les autres significations du sigle DVD, voir DVD (homonymie). DVD Un DVD de face Type de média … Wikipédia en Français
Digital Video Disk — DVD Pour les autres significations du sigle DVD, voir DVD (homonymie). DVD Un DVD de face Type de média … Wikipédia en Français
