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Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| autodetection | a BIOS setting for drives to make sure they are detected regardless of their geometry |
| BCD | a small database that holds parameters Windows needs for a successful boot. |
| BD-R | BD recordable. A BD-R drive might also write to DVDs or CDs. |
| BD-RE | BD rewriteable. A BD-RE drive might also write to DVD's or CD's. |
| Blu-Ray Disc | An optical disc technology that uses the UDF version 2.5 file system and a blue laser beam, which is shorter than any red beam used by DVD or CD discs. |
| bootrec | A Windows command used to repair the BCD and boot sectors. |
| CD | An optical disc technology that uses a red laser beam and can hold up to 700 MB of data. |
| CDFS | The 32-bit file system for CD discs and some CD-R and CD_RW discs |
| CD-ROM | Stands for CD-read only memory. |
| CD-RW | Stands for CD rewriteable. |
| chkdsk | A Windows command to verify the hard drive does not have bad sectors that can corrupt the file system. |
| CompactFlash Card | A flash memory device that allows for sizes up to 137 GB, although current sizes range up to 32 GB. |
| data cartridge | A full-sized cartridge that holds data and is used in a tape drive. |
| defragmentation tool | A utility or command to rewrite a file to a disk in one contiguous chain of clusters, thus speeding up data retrieval. |
| diskpart | A Windows command to manage hard drive, partitions and volumes. |
| DVD | A technology used by optical discs that uses a red laser beam and can hold up to 17 GB of data. |
| DVD-ROM | Stands for DVD read-only memory. |
| DVD-RW | Stands for DVD rewriteable memory. |
| DVD-RW DL | Stands for DVD rewriteable memory, dual layers. |
| embedded MMC | Internal storage used instead of using a solid-state drive (SSD) in inexpensive mobile devices such as cell phones, tablets and laptops. |
| external enclosure | A housing designed to store hard drives external from the computer. |
| external SATA | A standard for external drives based on SATA that uses a special external shielded SATA cable up to 2 meters long. |
| fault tolerance | The degree to which a system can tolerate failures. |
| file system | The overall structure that an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a disk. |
| format | The Windows command to prepare a hard drive volume, logical drive, or USB flash drive for use by placing tracks and sectors on its surface to store information |
| formatting | the process to prepare a hard drive volume, logical drive, or USB flash drive for use by placing tracks and sectors on its surface |
| hard disk drive | The main secondary storage device of a computer. |
| hard drive | The main secondary storage device of a computer. |
| hot-swapping | Plugging in a device while the computer is turned on. |
| hybrid hard drive | A hard drive that uses both magnetic and solid-state drive (SSD) technologies. |
| low-level formatting | A process (usually performed at the factory) that electronically creates the hard drie racks and sectors, and tests for bad spots on the disk surface. |
| magnetic hard drive | One of two technologies used by hard drives where data is stored as magnetic spots on disks that rotate at a high speed |
| minicartridge | A tape drive cartridge that is only 3 1/4 X 2 1/2 X 3/5 inches. |
| mirrored volume | The term used by Windows for the RAID 1 level that duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance. |
| MultiMediaCard | A compact is storage card that looks like an SD card, but the technology is different and they are not interchangeable. |
| NAND flash memory | The type of memory used in solid-state drives |
| RAID | Several methods of configuring multiple hard drives to store data to increase logical volume size and improve performance |
| RAID 0 | Using space from two or more physical disks to increase the disk space available for a single volume. |
| RAID 1 | A type of drive imaging that duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance. |
| RAID 1+0 | A combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 that requires at least four disks to work as an array of drives and provides the best redundancy and performance |
| RAID 10 | A combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 that requires at least four disks to work as an array of drives and provides the best redundancy and performance. |
| RAID 5 | A technique that stripes data across three or more drives and uses parity checking, so that if one drive fails, the other drives can re-create the data stored on the failed drive. |
| RAID -5 VOLUME | The term used by Windows for RAID 5 |
| read/write head | A sealed, magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk in a magnetic hard disk driv |
| Secure Digital card | A type of memory card used in digital cameras, tablets, cell phones, MP3 players, digital camcorders, and other portable devices. |
| sequential access | A method of data access used by tape drives, whereby data is written or read sequentially from the beginning to the end of tape or until the data is found |
| seriat ATA | An ATAPI interface standard for hard drives, optical drives, and other drives that uses a narrower and more reliable cable the 80-conductor cable and is easier to configure |
| S.M.A.R.T. | A system BIOS and hard drive feature that monitors hard drive performance, disk spin-up time, temperature, distance between the head and the disk |
| smart card reader | A device that can read a smart card used to authenticate a person onto a network. |
| solid-state device | An electronic device with no moving parts. |
| solid-state driver | A hard drive that has no moving parts. Also see solid state device |
| spanning | A configuration of two hard drives that hold a single Windows volume to increase the size of a volume |
| Startup Repair | A Windows utility that restores many of the Windows files needed for a successful boot. |
| storage card | An adapter card used to manage hardware RAID rather that using the firmware on the motherboard |
| striped volume | The term used by Windows for RAID 0. A type of dynamic volume used for two or more hard drives that writes to the disks evenly rather than filling up allotted space on one |
| UDF | A file system for optical media used by all DVD discs and some CD-R and CD-RW discs |
| wear leveling | A technique used on a solid-state drive (SSD) that ensures the logical block addressing does not always address the same physical blocks in order to distribute write operations more evenly across the device. |
| xD-Picture Card | A type of flash memory device that has a compact design and currently holds up to 8 GB of data. |
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