Microsoft Windows and other computer operating systems manage hard drive space by dividing it into equally-sized units called clusters or blocks. Over time, however, a drive's block structure becomes ...

In the last few months, a contentious debate has arisen surrounding the issue of a hardcoded constant in the consensus rules of the Bitcoin network. While on the surface it appears to be a simple ...

In addition to the format reducing the size by a given amount, the file system’s “block size” will also change the efficiency of space use on the drive. Blocks are small chunks of the drive that are ...