Definition: Defect Management


A general methodology of eliminating data errors on a recording surface by mapping out known defects on the media. The defective areas are rendered inaccessible, so that when information is written to the disk it is stored to non-defective locations on the disk. See G-List and P-List.




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Adaptive Caching

A feature of hard disk drives that enables them to improve performance and throughput by adapting to the application being run.

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