Index_F

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F

Failure of hard drive

annualized rate of, 26

backup prevention for, 27–28

costs of, 27–28

frequency of, 32–33

inevitability of, 36

mean time between failures, 13, 25–27

predicting of, 29–30

RAID for, 28–29

FAT, See File allocation table

FAT12, 16–17

FAT16, 16–17

FAT32, 16–17, 38

Fault-tolerant disk systems

description of, 41

mirrored volumes for, 42

File(s)

computer forensic search for, 117–118

corruption of, 71

deletion of, 117–118

disk optimization organization of, 94

File allocation table

description of, 16–17

new technology file system and

comparisons, 21

conversions, 75–76

partition, 76

quotas, 107

File fragmentation

definition of, 67

disk optimization prevention of, 96

File optimization, 171–172

Forensics

computer, See Computer forensics

definition of, 114

Formatting

high-level, 11

low-level, 10–11

new technology file system for, 38–39

Fragmentation, See also Defragmentation

backup effects, 70–71

boot time effects, 69–70

cache problems and, 73

compact disc writers affected by, 72

consequences of, 68–74, 94

crashes caused by, 71–72

data loss caused by, 71

defining of, 67–68

description of, 65, 94

file, 67

file corruption caused by, 71

free space, 68

generation of, 68

hard drive failure and, 73

history of, 65–66

master file table

performance, 76

prevention of, 74–75

new technology file system, 66–67

origins of, 65–66

page file, 76–77

performance effects, 67, 90

program errors and, 72–73

RAID effects, 101

RAM use and, 73

remedies for, 74

system stability effects, 68–74

in Windows 2000, 66–67

in Windows XP, 66–67

Free space fragmentation, 68

Fsutil behavior set mftzone, 19

Fujitsu drives, 224–225

Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY N850, 146

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