Everything about Disk Utility

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Disk UtilityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Clinical utility of direct disk diffusion testing in guiding antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bacteremiaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Big Book of Apple HacksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Evaluation of Actuator Disk Model Relative to Actuator Surface Model for Predicting Utility-Scale Wind Turbine WakesCited 25 times
5. Go sideways: Repair permissionsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Apple File SystemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Evaluation of Actuator Disk Model Relative to Actuator Surface Model for Predicting Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Wakes

  Zhaobin Li, Xiaolei Yang · 2020 · Energies · 25 citations

• Accuracy and utility of a 10-test disk blood glucose meter

  David M. Kendall, Roy A. Kaplan, Carolyn F. Paulson · 2005 · Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice · 14 citations

• Cefoxitin disk diffusion screen for confirmation of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates and utility in the clinical laboratory

  Susan E. Sharp, Julie A. Warren, Richard B. Thomson · 2005 · Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease · 13 citations

• Commentary: Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Salmonella and the Utility of Perfloxacin Disk Diffusion

  Ferric C. Fang · 2015 · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 12 citations

• Increased utility of the Secchi disk to assess eutrophication in coastal waters with freshwater run-off

  Carina P. Erlandsson, Anders Stigebrandt · 2006 · Journal of Marine Systems · 12 citations

• Optic disk evaluation and utility of high-tech devices in the assessment of glaucoma

  Sherry J. Bass, Jerome Sherman · 2004 · Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association · 7 citations

• A utility-based unified disk scheduling framework for shared mixed-media services

  Akshat Verma, Rohit Jain, Sugata Ghosal · 2008 · ACM Transactions on Storage · 3 citations

• A cross-sectional study of temporomandibular joint coronal plane disk position: imaging reliability and clinical utility

  Seema Kurup, Heidi Crow, Yoly Gonzalez · 2020 · Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Clinical utility of direct disk diffusion testing in guiding antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bacteremia

  Edwin Kwan-Yeung Chiu, Ting-Fung Ma, King-Pui Florence Chan · 2025 · International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 0 citations

• Optic Disk Granuloma in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: A Case Report Illustrating the Utility of Multimodal Imaging

  Alexandre Bourdin, Alexandre Matet, Helene Blin · 2024 · Ocular Immunology and Inflammation · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Big Book of Apple HacksChris Seibold · 2008
• 📕Hard disk solutions with batch file utilitiesDavid D Busch · 1987
• Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95Quarterdeck Corporation · 1995
• 📕Fast Access/WordPerfect LibraryRhyder McClure · 1989
• Hard disk managerNancy Woodard Cain · 1987
• The Macintosh system fitness planDan Shafer · 1995
• 📕Using disk and RAM utilitiesIan Robertson Sinclair · 1990
• Working with MagellanDan Gookin · 1990

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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