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IEC  &  JEDEC  designations  

Decimal   Binary  
Value   SI   Value   IEC   JEDEC  
10001   k   Kilo   10241   Ki   kibi-­‐   K   kilo-­‐  
10002   M   Mega   10242   Mi   mebi-­‐   M   mega-­‐  
10003   G   Giga   10243   Gi   gibi-­‐   G   giga-­‐  
10004   T   Tera   10244   Ti   tebi-­‐  
10005   P   Peta   10245   Pi   pebi-­‐  
10006   E   Exa   10246   Ei   exbi-­‐  
10007   Z   Zetta   10247   Zi   zebi-­‐  
10008   Y   Yotta   10248   Yi   yobi-­‐  

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 Complex  Instruction  Set  Computer  Reduced  Instruction  Set  Computer

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Max  files   How  many  

Max   Integrated  
Format OS #  bits Max  file  size quantity  in  a   “Cluster”  
volume  size security
volume max

FAT16   D.O.S.  
File  Alocation   Windows  95   16 2  GBytes 2  GBytes 65  536 268  435  456 No
Table (VFAT16)

FAT32   Windows  
Almost   Almost  
File  Alocation   95OSR2/98/ME   32 2  TeraBytes 4  GBytes No
illimited illimited
Table 2000/XP

NTFS   Windows  NT   Limité  par  la  

Almost   Almost  
New  Technology     Windows  2000/ 64 2  TeraBytes dimension   Yes
illimited illimited
File  System XP du  volume

Limité  par  la  

Windows  2000/ Almost   Almost  
NTFS5 64 2  TeraBytes dimension   Yes
XP illimited illimited
du  volume

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Max Max
Max
Max file amount of amount of Integrated
Format OS # bits volume
size files in the items in a security
size
volume folder

MFS
Finder1 to 800KBytes
Macintosh File ? ? ? ? No
Finder 4 ?
System

HFS
Finder 5 2GB to
Hierarchical 16 2GBytes 65 536 32 767 No
OS 6 to OSX 2TB
File System

HFS+
Hierarchical 16 more than 2
OS 8.1 to OSX 32 2 TeraBytes 32 767 Yes
File System TeraBytes billion
extended

Max  amount  of   Max  amount  of   Integrated  

Format Max  volume  size Max  file  size
file  in  a  folder items  in  a  folder security

More  than  2  
OS  7.5.1  /  OS  8 2TB 2TB 32  767 No
billions

OS  8.1 2TB 2TB up  to  40  billions 32  767 No

OS  9,  OSX 2TB 2TB up  to  40  billions 32  767 No

OSX  10.2 8TB 8TB up  to  40  billions up  to  40  billions Yes

OSX  10.3 16TB 16TB up  to  40  billions up  to  40  billions Yes

up  to  40  billions   up  to  40  billions  

OSX  10.4 16TB 16TB Yes

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Min.  
Type  of  RAID! Technique! #  of   Advantage! If  a  disk  crashes!
Drvs!

RAID0! Stripe! 2! Fast! all  is  lost!

Extremely   Everything  is  

RAID1! Mirroring! 2! doubled!
Reliable!

Block-­‐level  
striping,     Reconstructed  from  
RAID4! 3! Fast  and  reliable! parity  data!
dedicated  
parity  drive!
Block  level   Reconstructed  from  
striping   Fast  and  very  
RAID5! 3! parity  data  on  the  
reliable! fly!
Shared  parity!

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mezzanine  in  iMac  

(internal  use  only)  

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#  of  devices  per  

Interface  type Speed chain

USB  1.0 Up  to  12  Mbit/s 127

USB  2.0 440  Mb/s 127

USB  3.0   4.8  Gb/s To  exceed  

 (upcoming  2009) USB  2.0

FireWire 400  Megabits/sec 63

FireWire  800 800  Megabits/sec 63

http://www.usb.org/home
http://www.1394ta.org

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