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MFM
Last modified: Monday, December 02, 2002
Abbreviation of modified frequency modulation, an encoding scheme used by PCfloppy disk drives and older hard drives. A competing scheme, known as RLL (run length limited), produces faster dataaccess speeds and can increase a disk's storage capacity by up to 50 percent. RLL is used on most newer hard drives.