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  2. exFAT - Wikipedia

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    exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards, that was introduced by Microsoft in 2006. [ 7 ] exFAT was proprietary until 28 August 2019, when Microsoft published its specification. [ 8 ]

  3. Disk sector - Wikipedia

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    In computer file systems, a cluster (sometimes also called allocation unit or block) is a unit of disk space allocation for files and directories.To reduce the overhead of managing on-disk data structures, the filesystem does not allocate individual disk sectors by default, but contiguous groups of sectors, called clusters.

  4. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...

  5. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    GCF – format used by the Steam content management system for file archives; IMG – format used by Renderware-based Grand Theft Auto games for data storage; LLSP3 – Lego Spike program file; LOVE – format used by the LOVE2D Engine [33] MAP – format used by Halo: Combat Evolved for archive compression, Doom³, and various other games

  6. File Allocation Table - Wikipedia

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    File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default file system for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems. [citation needed] Originally developed in 1977 for use on floppy disks, it was adapted for use on hard disks and other devices.

  7. Design of the FAT file system - Wikipedia

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    The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. [3] It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded systems, and thus is a well-suited file system for data exchange between computers and devices of almost any type and age from 1981 through to the present.

  8. USB - Wikipedia

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    USB was designed to standardize the connection of peripherals to personal computers, both to exchange data and to supply electric power. It has largely replaced interfaces such as serial ports and parallel ports and has become commonplace on various devices.

  9. Extent (file systems) - Wikipedia

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    Also, extent allocation results in less file fragmentation. Extent-based file systems can also eliminate most of the metadata overhead of large files that would traditionally be taken up by the block-allocation tree. But because the savings are small compared to the amount of stored data (for all file sizes in general) but make up a large ...