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  2. Disk sector - Wikipedia

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    The popularity of the PC beginning in the 1980s and the advent of the IDE interface in the late 1980s led to a 512-byte sector becoming an industry standard sector size for HDDs and similar storage devices. [11] [failed verification] In the 1970s, IBM added fixed-block architecture Direct Access Storage Devices (FBA DASDs) to its line of CKD ...

  3. Advanced Format - Wikipedia

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    The use of long data sectors was suggested in 1998 in a technical paper issued by the National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) [2] calling attention to the conflict between continuing increases in areal density and the traditional 512-byte-per-sector format used in hard disk drives. [3]

  4. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    512 180 kB 300 MFM Single head drive, but double-sided floppy discs (total of 360 kB per floppy) Amstrad PCW8512/9512: 3 inch Double 2 80 9 512 720 kB 300 MFM 720 kB mode uses both sides - ensure disc inserted correct way up. Apple II: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 1 35 13 256 soft 113.75 kB 300 GCR [NB 2] 1 16 140 kB 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch Double 1 80 ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    8,192 bits (1,024 bytes) – RAM capacity of a ZX81 and a ZX80. 9,408 bits (1,176 bytes) – uncompressed single-channel frame length in standard MPEG audio (75 frames per second and per channel), with standard 16-bit sampling at 44,100 Hz 10 4: 15,360 bits – one screen of data displayed on an 8-bit monochrome text console (80x24) 2 14

  6. Floppy disk format - Wikipedia

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    SSDD originally referred to Single Sided, Double Density, a format of (usually 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch) floppy disks which could typically hold 35-40 tracks of nine 512-byte (or 18 256-byte) sectors each. Only one side of the disc was used, although some users did discover that punching additional holes into the disc jacket would allow the creation of ...

  7. Disk encryption theory - Wikipedia

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    The second property requires dividing the disk into several sectors, usually 512 bytes (4096 bits) long, which are encrypted and decrypted independently of each other. In turn, if the data is to stay confidential, the encryption method must be tweakable ; no two sectors should be processed in exactly the same way.

  8. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    This amounts to a maximum reported size of 2 TiB, assuming a disk with 512 bytes per sector (see 512e). It would result in 16 TiB with 4 KiB sectors ( 4Kn ), but since many older operating systems and tools are hard coded for a sector size of 512 bytes or are limited to 32-bit calculations, exceeding the 2 TiB limit could cause compatibility ...

  9. Units of information - Wikipedia

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    1 byte: A number from 0 to 255; 90 bytes: Enough to store a typical line of text from a book; 512 bytes = 0.5 KiB: The typical sector size of an old style hard disk drive (modern Advanced Format sectors are 4096 bytes). 1024 bytes = 1 KiB: A block size in some older UNIX filesystems; 2048 bytes = 2 KiB: A CD-ROM sector