MFM

MFM definition - computer

(Modified Frequency Modulation) The magnetic disk encoding method used on most floppy disks and most earlier hard disks under 40MB. MFM has twice the capacity of the previous FM method, transfers data at 625 Kbytes per second and uses the ST506 interface. See hard disk.



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