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  2. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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    USB drives with USB 2.0 support can store more data and transfer faster than much larger optical disc drives like CD-RW or DVD-RW drives and can be read by many other systems such as the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, DVD players, automobile entertainment systems, and in a number of handheld devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, though ...

  3. Flash memory - Wikipedia

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    When a logical block is accessed by high-level software, it is mapped to a physical block by the device driver or controller. A number of blocks on the flash chip may be set aside for storing mapping tables to deal with bad blocks, or the system may simply check each block at power-up to create a bad block map in RAM.

  4. USB communications - Wikipedia

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    The written USB 3.0 specification was released by Intel and its partners in August 2008. The first USB 3.0 controller chips were sampled by NEC in May 2009, [4] and the first products using the USB 3.0 specification arrived in January 2010. [5] USB 3.0 connectors are generally backward compatible, but include new wiring and full-duplex operation.

  5. Device file - Wikipedia

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    It manages several device like special files, most commonly: Parallel, Serial, FastParallel, and USB. The SystemDevices module implements the pseudo devices such as: Vdu, Kbd, Null and Printer. MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR-DOS: FAT \DEV (and /DEV) various As implemented in the kernel, character devices appear in the virtual \DEV directory and any disk ...

  6. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

  7. HP Envy - Wikipedia

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    The HP Envy (stylized in all caps) is a line of consumer-oriented high-end laptops, desktop computers and printers manufactured and sold by HP Inc. since 2009. It originally started as a high-end version of the HP Pavilion line before becoming its own separate line years later.

  8. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    With an option in the optical disc authoring software, optical disc writers are able to simulate the writing process on CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW, which allows for testing such as observing the writing speeds and patterns (e.g. constant angular velocity, constant linear velocity and P-CAV and Z-CLV variants) with different writing speed ...

  9. Software versioning - Wikipedia

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    Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given version number category (e.g., major or minor), these numbers are generally assigned in increasing order and correspond to new developments in the software.