Hard sectoring in a magnetic or optical data storage device is a form of sectoring which uses a physical mark or hole in the recording medium to reference...

8- and 5+1⁄4-inch floppy disks were available with both soft sectoring and hard sectoring. Because of the similarity in magnetic characteristics between...

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

presence of hard or soft sectoring. Instead, it used special repeating data synchronization patterns written to the disk between each sector, to assist...

Cylinder-head-sector, an early method for giving addresses to blocks of data on a hard drive Disk sector, a subdivision of a track on a disk Sector, or zone...

A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded...

fourth sector, called the quaternary sector. It is sometimes hard to determine whether a given company is part of the secondary or the tertiary sector. It...

of 175 kB, with 50 tracks and 8 sectors per track. The Memorex disk was hard sectored, that is, it contained 8 sector holes (plus one index hole) at the...

manufactured high capacity (for the time) hard-sectored 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers, later manufacturing hard drives using SCSI and ESDI interfaces...

Hardal (also spelled Chardal; Hebrew: חרד״ל, acronym for חרדי לאומי‎ Ḥaredi Le'umi, lit. '"Nationalist Haredi"', plural Hardalim) usually refers to the...

traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs) and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Newer HDDs and SSDs use 4096-byte (4 KiB) sectors, which are known as...

Sector slipping is a technique used to deal with defective sectors in hard disk drives. Due to the volatility of hard disks from their moving parts and...

of data remanence. Bad sectors can be "soft" (logical) or "hard" (hardware, physical), depending on what is making the sector inaccessible. In case of...

Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made...

Internal hard drive defect management is a system present in hard drives for handling of bad sectors. The systems are generally proprietary and vary from...

changes the floppy drive controller from the hard-sectored controller (max 100 kB) to a soft-sectored controller that supported double-sided, double...

A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer...

or a 0. DVD-RAM uses concentric tracks each divided into hard (factory originated) sectors, in contrast to traditional spiral recording found in other...

Format (AF) is any disk sector format used to store data on magnetic disks in hard disk drives (HDDs) that exceeds 528 bytes per sector, frequently 4096, 4112...

successful, North Star's sales suffered from the company's adherence to hard sector floppy drives which made software difficult to port onto North Star machines...

versions on 5.25-inch disk for North Star, Osborne, Apple, Heath hard sector and soft sector, and Superbrain, and one 8-inch version. Ellis Computing also...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a computer hard disk drive-monitoring software for Windows, Linux and DOS operating systems. Hard Disk Sentinel was...

physical assets that provide services. The people employed in the hard infrastructure sector generally maintain, monitor, and operate the assets, but do not...

Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped...

hard money loan is a specific type of asset-based loan: a financing instrument through which a borrower receives funds secured by real property. Hard...

piezoelectric actuator 2010 – First hard drive manufactured by using the Advanced Format of 4,096‑byte sectors instead of 512‑byte sectors.: Overview  2011 - Samsung...

drive-hard drive controller and used Tandon floppy drives. Almost all used unusual 100-track per inch 5 ¼-inch floppy drives and 16-sector hard sector media...

Associates. The drives used single-sided, single-density storage on hard-sectored diskettes. Storage capacity was approximately 90K bytes per diskette...

Dark Sector, stylized as darkSector, is a third-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows...

In economics, a durable good or a hard good or consumer durable is a good that does not quickly wear out or, more specifically, one that yields utility...