storage block
1Storage block — A storage block is a physical sector on the surface of a disk or diskette. It is the smallest unit of transference between the main memory and a given disk drive.In the IBM mainframe terminology, a block is the minimal physical division of data… …
2storage block — atmintinės blokas statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. memory block; memory unit; storage block; storage unit vok. Speicherblock, m; Speichereinheit, f; Speicherwerk, n rus. блок памяти, m pranc. bloc de mémoire, m …
3storage block — atmintinės blokas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. storage block vok. Gedächtnisblock, m rus. блок памяти, m pranc. bloc de mémoire, m …
4Block (data storage) — In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), block is a sequence of bytes or bits, having a nominal length (a block size ). Data thus structured is said to be blocked . The process of putting data into blocks is called blocking …
5storage unit — atmintinės blokas statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. memory block; memory unit; storage block; storage unit vok. Speicherblock, m; Speichereinheit, f; Speicherwerk, n rus. блок памяти, m pranc. bloc de mémoire, m …
6Storage virtualization — refers to the process of abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The term is today used to describe this abstraction at any layer in the storage software and hardware stack.Key conceptsAddress space remappingVirtualization of storage… …
7Block — (bl[o^]k), n. [OE. blok; cf. F. bloc (fr. OHG.), D. & Dan. blok, Sw. & G. block, OHG. bloch. There is also an OHG. bloch, biloh; bi by + the same root as that of E. lock. Cf. {Block}, v. t., {Blockade}, and see {Lock}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A piece… …
8Block printing — Block Block (bl[o^]k), n. [OE. blok; cf. F. bloc (fr. OHG.), D. & Dan. blok, Sw. & G. block, OHG. bloch. There is also an OHG. bloch, biloh; bi by + the same root as that of E. lock. Cf. {Block}, v. t., {Blockade}, and see {Lock}.] [1913 Webster] …
9Block system — Block Block (bl[o^]k), n. [OE. blok; cf. F. bloc (fr. OHG.), D. & Dan. blok, Sw. & G. block, OHG. bloch. There is also an OHG. bloch, biloh; bi by + the same root as that of E. lock. Cf. {Block}, v. t., {Blockade}, and see {Lock}.] [1913 Webster] …
10Block suballocation — is a feature of some computer file systems which allows large blocks or allocation units to be used while making efficient use of slack space at the end of large files, space which would otherwise be lost for other use to internal fragmentation.… …
