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  2. Binary prefix - Wikipedia

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    Thus, for example, the capacity of a "10 MB" (decimal "M") disk drive could be reported as "9.56 MB", and that of a "300 GB" drive as "279.4 GB". Some operating systems, such as Mac OS X , [ 33 ] Ubuntu , [ 34 ] and Debian , [ 35 ] have been updated to use "MB" and "GB" to denote decimal prefixes when displaying disk drive capacities and file ...

  3. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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    Free software No MS-DOS: GNOME Disks: Red Hat: Free software Yes Linux: GNU Parted CLI-only (GUIs: Gparted, QtParted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux GParted (GUI for GNU Parted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux (Live CD is independent) March 28, 2022 gdisk (GPT fdisk) Roderick W. Smith Free software Yes Linux, macOS, Windows

  4. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    1,000 gb, 1,000,000 mb In the early days of computing, the total capacity of HDDs was specified in seven to nine decimal digits frequently truncated with the idiom millions . [ 116 ] [ 33 ] By the 1970s, the total capacity of HDDs was given by manufacturers using SI decimal prefixes such as megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes), gigabytes (1 GB ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    5,000,000 bits – Typical English book volume in plain text format of 500 pages × 2000 characters per page and 5-bits per character. 5,242,880 bits (640 kibibytes) – the maximum addressable memory of the original IBM PC architecture megabyte (MB) 8,000,000 bits (1,000 kilobytes) – the preferred definition of megabyte

  6. Seagate Barracuda - Wikipedia

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    All 2.5" have 128 MB cache size, 3.5" mostly have 256 MB with two exceptions 1 TB(64 MB cache) and 500 GB(32 MB cache). Moreover only this two are using CMR recording technology rest uses SMR . Each 3.5" has 4096 Bytes sectors size, in 2.5" there is distinction between 512 Bytes logical sectors size and 4096 Bytes physical sector sizes.

  7. Timeline of binary prefixes - Wikipedia

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    First use of GB in a decimal sense in this HDD marketing survey; Figure 1 states "FIXED DISK DRIVES more than 1 GB" market size as $10,786.6 million. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1987) has binary definitions for kilobyte and megabyte. kilo byte n [from the fact that 1024 (2 10) is the power of 2 closest to 1000] (1970): 1024 bytes

  8. Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

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    Any Windows version starting from Windows 95 or later. Large File support (greater than 4 GB which requires an exFAT filesystem) for the huge wikis (English only at the time of this writing). It also works on Linux with Wine. 16 MB RAM minimum for the WikiTaxi reader, 128 MB recommended for the importer (more for speed).

  9. Disk buffer - Wikipedia

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    A 500 GB Western Digital hard disk drive with a 16 MB buffer In computer storage , a disk buffer (often ambiguously called a disk cache or a cache buffer ) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is ...