If you have room left over on the iPod after transferring your music, you can use it as a portable hard disk, manually copying any computer file to its hard disk to back up files or move them to another Mac.

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"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.

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It also makes it easier to find the files that have been created, accessed and modified during an attack, and it is able to reconstruct deleted files from raw data found in various hidden parts of a computer's hard disk, such as unallocated space and file slack.

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Many observers have suggested defensive techniques that deploy TrueCrypt disk encryption with hidden volume partitions or PGP Whole Disk Encryption rendering the entire computer unbootable thereby making even file time and date stamps unavailable.

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Finally the camera stores the compressed image file on anything from a flash memory card to a floppy disk for later downloading to a computer or printer.

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You can see that files A, C, and D are now spread all over the disk which causes performance problems because the mechanism of the disk drive has to jump around to find all of the parts of the file.

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In addition to a higher storage capacity than past LTO generations, LTO 5 also offers new architecture features such as the LTFS file system that turn magnetic tape into a directly addressable data source, like a hard disk drive.

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