Hard drive terms

Hard drive terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 220 terms like storage, drive, SSD, and secondary storage. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'S' to find terms like 'SATA' in the 'S' section.

Top 10 hard drive terms
Storage Hard disk Secondary storage device Drive Jump drive Permanent storage Boot partition IDE ScanDisk Disk capacity
Number
1-inch hard drive
A
AAM Access arm Access light Active partition Actuator ADSM AHCI Allocation unit Anti-vibration mount Array ATA ATAPI AT attachment packet interface
B
Bad sector Basic disk BIT Bleachbit Block Boot partition Boot sector BPB Bus mastering Byte
C
C: Cable select Capacity C: drive Channel CHS Click of death Cluster Contiguous Contiguous data structure Cross-linked files Current drive Cylinder
D
Daisy chain DASD DASP Data buffer DBAN DDO Deceleration time Defrag Defragmentation Direct access Disc clone Disk Disk access time Disk capacity Disk clone Disk cloning Disk controller Disk crash Disk density Disk drive Disk Drive Overlay Disk driver Disk duplexing Disk interface Disk management Disk optimizer Disk partition Disk partition table Disk platter Disk quota management Disk thrashing Disk usage DOS partition Drive Drive format DriveTrust DS DSP DSR Dynamic disk
E
EB ECHS EIDE Enclosure Exabyte exFAT Extended partition External drive External storage
F
FAT FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 Fdisk FFS File size File systems table Fixed disk Fixed storage Flash drive Floating defects FM FNR Format Free space Fsck Fstab
G
GB Gigabyte GParted GPT
H
Half-height drive Hard disk Hard disk controller Hard drive Head Head crash Head positioning Head seek Head switching Hellabyte Hidden partition High-level format Housekeeping HPFS Hybrid hard drive
I
IBM Storage Protect IDC IDE Index mark Index track Interblock gap Interleave Internal storage Interrecord gap IRG iSCSI iSCSI initiator
J
Jump drive
K
Key Keyed Kilobit Kilobyte
L
LBA Local drive Logical drive Logical partition Lost cluster Low-level format Lzone
M
Magnetic Magnetic media Mass storage Master Master Boot Record MB MBR Media Megabit Megabyte MFM encoding MFT Microdrive Mini-SATA Momentum cache
N
NON-DOS partition Non-volatile Non-volatile memory NTFS NVRAM
O
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P
Park Partition Pen drive Permanent storage Phdisk PIO PK Platter Preformatted Primary Primary channel Primary partition
Q
Quettabyte
R
RAID RAMAC RAM disk Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Reformat Removable hard drive Retentive Ribbon cable Rigid disk RLL encoding Ronnabyte Rotational delay RPM
S
SATA SATADIMM SCA ScanDisk Scratch space SCSI Secondary channel Secondary storage device Sector Seek time Selector channel Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology Servo motor Settling time Size Slack space Slave SMART Soft-sectored disk Source data disk Spindle Step motor Storage device Store Superblock System partition
T
TB Terabyte Thin-film media Thrashing Thumb drive Time Machine TPI Track Track pitch Transducer
U
UDMA Unpark Used space
V
VBR VFAT VHD Voice coil Volume label Volume name
W
Winchester disk drive Wpcomp Write error Write Precomp
X
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Y
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Z
ZBR Zebibyte Zero filling Zoned recording

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