14MASS STORAGE DEVICES AND FILESYSTEMS
The most prevalent I/O device on modern computers is probably the mass storage device. Whereas some PCs don’t have a display (they’re operated headlessly), or even a keyboard or mouse (they’re accessed remotely), almost every computer system recognizable as a PC has a mass storage device of some sort. This chapter will focus on the types of mass storage devices—hard drives, floppy disks, tape drives, flash drives, solid state drives, and more—as well as the special filesystem format they use to organize the data they store.
14.1 Disk Drives
Almost all modern computer systems include some sort of disk drive ...
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