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  2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...

  3. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Trim was introduced soon after SSDs were introduced. Because low-level operation of SSDs differs significantly from hard drives, the conventional manner in which operating systems handle storage operations—such as deletions and formatting—resulted in unanticipated progressive performance degradation of write operations on SSDs. [2]

  4. Interleaving (disk storage) - Wikipedia

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    Low-level format utility performing interleave speed tests on a 10-megabyte IBM PC XT hard drive. Historically, interleaving was used in Minimizing missed rotations between instructions on computers storing instructions on a drum memory; Ordering block storage on storage devices such as drums, floppy disk drives and hard disk drives. The ...

  5. fdformat - Wikipedia

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    The Linux fdformat program works with the kernel floppy driver. It simply formats a floppy disk using whatever parameters is already known to the system. [1] The setfdprm can be used to provide the system with unusual formatting parameters with which to format.

  6. SpinRite - Wikipedia

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    SpinRite was originally written as a hard drive interleave tool. [3] At the time SpinRite was designed, hard drives often had a defect list printed on the nameplate, listing known bad sectors discovered at the factory.

  7. Disk Drill - Wikipedia

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    It was introduced in 2010, [2] and is primarily designed to recover deleted or lost files from hard disk drives, USB flash drives and SSD drives with the help of Recovery Vault [3] technology. While Disk Drill was originally exclusive to the Mac, a Windows version was released in 2015.

  8. Talk:Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    You can then use any tool that can do "high-level formatting" of a real HDD/SSD to do "high-level formatting" of the "fake" disk; every write to the disk device gets forwarded to a daemon process that performs them by writing to a file.

  9. Low level format - Wikipedia

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