Disk drives are the foundation of modern data storage, but operating systems cannot use physical storage directly. The platters, heads, tracks and sectors of a physical drive must be translated into a ...

"Excel spreadsheets," says Pilafas, who manages two physical data centers that act as one logical storage-area network (SAN) handling 25 TB. "Nevertheless, I would get a lot of questions from my ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...