Definition: Formatted Capacity


The actual capacity available to store data in a mass storage device. The formatted capacity is the gross capacity minus the capacity taken up by the overhead data required for formatting the media.




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ROM

Read Only Memory. A storage media that can be read only - not written to (except for the first time).

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