<p dir="ltr">you're confusing terms but the principal is the same. filesystems write data in blocks, drives write data in sectors. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 19, 2016 10:37 PM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Technically, yes - you can read each block and if you know enough about the files, rebuild them from the blocks<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:07 PM, leam hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Office conversation today and I wanted to verify my understanding is correct. Data is written to disk in "stripes", a "stripe" being X length. My understanding is that if you access the disk you can read those stripes of data. An entire file may not be readable but you could get strings of data. <br><br></div>Is that a correct statement?<br><br></div>Thanks!<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Leam<br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div></div>
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