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  2. Scratch space - Wikipedia

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    Scratch space is space on the hard disk drive that is dedicated for storage of temporary user data, by analogy of "scratch paper." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is unreliable by intention and has no backup . Scratch disks may occasionally be set to erase all data at regular intervals so that the disk space is left free for future use.

  3. Apple Partition Map - Wikipedia

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    Apple_Scratch: empty: This identifier marks an empty partition. Apple_Second: Second stage bootloader Apple_UFS: Unix File System: Mac OS X: This partition contains a Unix File System (UFS) and is used by Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server (Version 10.0 and newer) and various Unix-like operating systems. Apple_UNIX_SVR2: A/UX, Unix

  4. Target Disk Mode - Wikipedia

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    Target Disk Mode (sometimes referred to as TDM or Target Mode) is a boot mode unique to Macintosh computers. When a Mac that supports Target Disk Mode [1] is started with the 'T' key held down, its operating system does not boot. Instead, the Mac's firmware enables its drives to behave as a SCSI, FireWire, Thunderbolt, or USB-C external mass ...

  5. Apple Disk Image - Wikipedia

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    Apple [1] Disk Image is a disk image format commonly used by the macOS operating system. When opened, an Apple Disk Image is mounted as a volume within the Finder.. An Apple Disk Image can be structured according to one of several proprietary disk image formats, including the Universal Disk Image Format (UDIF) from Mac OS X and the New Disk Image Format (NDIF) from Mac OS 9.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    When a sudden, sharp movement is detected by the built-in accelerometer in the ThinkPad, internal hard disk heads automatically unload themselves to reduce the risk of any potential data loss or scratch defects. Apple later also utilized this technology in their PowerBook, iBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook line, known as the Sudden Motion Sensor.

  8. Macintosh 512K - Wikipedia

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    It is the earliest Macintosh model that can be used as an AppleShare server and, with a bridge Mac, communicate with modern devices. [3] The Mac 512K originally shipped with Macintosh System 1.1 but was able to run all versions of Mac OS up to System 4.1. It was replaced by the Macintosh 512Ke and the Macintosh Plus. All support for the Mac ...

  9. Adobe Creative Suite - Wikipedia

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    Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems.. The last of the Creative Suite versions, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), was launched at a release event on April 23, 2012, and released on May 7, 2012. [1]