512-byte sectors have been the norm for decades. The 512-byte size was itself inherited from floppy disks, making it an even older historical artifact. The age of this standard means that it's baked ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A couple of weeks ago I wrote in this column about the disparity between decimal and binary multiples. I wrote about how the prefixes ...

Overall, as an example, if you have a drive that is 40KB in usable size, and formatted into 4KB blocks, you can "fill" it by creating 10 separate files that are only 1 byte each, and, essentially, ...

Just like we measure day-to-day things like time in seconds, mass in kilograms, and height in meters; computer memory and disc space are measured based on bytes. You would have probably come across ...

To ensure data integrity, it's wise to frequently calculate file checksums. The C program in Listing 1 calculates the checksum of a file using a 16-bit CRC (cyclic redundancy check). The program ...

Before discussing the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk” in detail, let’s see the basic differences between these terms. Here, I will also show you some calculations that will give the exact ...

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