Definition: Physical damage


Damage to the physical unit. For a hard drive this may be damage to the electronics, the mechanics or the media itself.




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Kilobyte (KB)

1024 bytes, although it often considered to be a unit of 1000 bytes. In the case of computer memory, which is partitioned into sizes that are a power of two, a kilobyte is equal to 2 10 or 1024 bytes.

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