Implementing Mass Storage Flashcards
1
Q
The process of electronically subdividing a physical drive into 1+ units
A
Partitioning
2
Q
Addressing scheme that presents storage chunks on a storage device to the OS as a sequence of blocks beginning with LBA0. This saves the OS from having to deal directly with the details of how storage space is arranged on a hard drive or SSD
A
Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
3
Q
Special software, embedded on hard drives, that constantly scans the drives for bad blocks
A
Error Correction Code (ECC)
