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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Byte

A byte is a series of 8 bits. Also called a Octet. A byte is able to store one character. Computer storage space is measured in bytes.

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