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A device to which information is read and written in fixed-size blocks randomly accessible anywhere on the device.
As opposed to a CharacterDevice.
-Common examples of block devices
are hard drives
, optical drives (CD/DVD readers/writers), memory-card readers (for e.g. SD cards, CF cards, xD cards) and USB storage devices (USB keys
or external hard drives/optical drives).
+Common examples of BlockDevice~s
are HardDrive~s
, optical drives ([
CD]
/[
DVD]
readers/writers), memory-card readers (for e.g. SD cards, CF cards, xD cards) and [
USB]
storage devices (USB KeyDrive~s
or external hard drives/optical drives).
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See also DeviceDriver
