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  2. Wear leveling - Wikipedia

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    The first type of wear leveling is called dynamic wear leveling and it uses a map to link logical block addresses (LBAs) from the OS to the physical flash memory. Each time the OS writes replacement data, the map is updated so the original physical block is marked as invalid data, and a new block is linked to that map entry. Each time a block ...

  3. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Active hard-drive protection, to protect laptop drives from external mechanical forces; S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) included in hard-drives, to provide early warning of predictable failure modes; Base isolation used under server racks in data centers

  4. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    A scalable block layer for high-performance SSD storage, known as blk-multiqueue or blk-mq and developed primarily by Fusion-io engineers, was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 3.13, released on 19 January 2014. This leverages the performance offered by SSDs and NVMe by allowing much higher I/O submission rates.

  5. Bad sector - Wikipedia

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    Hard disk reader. A bad sector in computing is a disk sector on a disk storage unit that is unreadable. Upon taking damage, all information stored on that sector is lost. When a bad sector is found and marked, the operating system like Windows or Linux will skip it in the future.

  6. Write amplification - Wikipedia

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    The SSD controller will use free blocks on the SSD for garbage collection and wear leveling. The portion of the user capacity which is free from user data (either already TRIMed or never written in the first place) will look the same as over-provisioning space (until the user saves new data to the SSD).

  7. How the L.A. area wildfires have impacted schools

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    A dozen schools have been damaged or destroyed in the Palisades and Eaton Fires in Southern California as dangerous winds continue to plague the Los Angeles area. Several other campuses have been ...

  8. Forensic disk controller - Wikipedia

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    Such a controller historically has been made in the form of a dongle that fits between a computer and an IDE or SCSI hard drive, but with the advent of USB and SATA, forensic disk controllers supporting these newer technologies have become widespread. Steve Bress and Mark Menz invented hard drive write blocking (US Patent 6,813,682).

  9. Billy Crystal Recalls Being Taught by Martin Scorsese at NYU ...

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    Crystal has gone on to win six Emmys and a Tony. He has hosted the Oscars nine times, authored multiple books and won the 2007 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.