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The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems Mass Data Storage report by the IEEE forecasts that by 2028, we shall see ...

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As long as the file being read was written sequentially, the HDD will skim it. However, as the disc becomes crowded with data, it’s easy for a file to be written across multiple sections.