December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
23h 59m
English
book
OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan
by Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson
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Lesson 9Manage File Systems and Storage
GOALS
▶ Recognize the various file systems supported by OS X
▶ Manage disks, partitions, and volumes
▶ Troubleshoot and repair partition and volume issues
Although personal computer processor speed has increased around a thousandfold since the first Mac was introduced in 1984, storage capacity has easily increased a million times over. Compare 1984’s 400 KB floppy to today’s average desktop disk at 1 TB, which is roughly equivalent to 1,000,000,000 KB, or 2.5 million 400 KB floppies. Users have responded by moving thousands of pictures and hundreds of hours of music and video, historically stored in analog form, to digital storage. Even though the Internet has recently changed our perception of what a ...