Hard drive terms Updated: 09/07/2019 by Computer Hope 0-9ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Top 10 hard drive terms Storage Hard disk Secondary storage device Jump drive Drive IDE Local drive Boot partition Hidden partition Defrag Number 1-inch hard drive A AAM A-cable Access arm Access light Active partition Actuator ADSM AHCI Allocation unit Anti vibration mount Array 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 Disk Disk access time Disk capacity 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 thrashing Disk usage DOS partition Drive DriveTrust DS 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 Floating defects FM FNR Format 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 Hidden partition High-level format Housekeeping HPFS Hybrid hard drive I IDC IDE Index mark Index track Interblock gap Interleave Interrecord gap IRG iSCSI J Jump drive K Keyed Kilobit Kilobyte L LBA Local drive Logical drive Logical partition Lost cluster Low-level format Lzone M Magnetic media Mass storage Master Master Boot Record MB MBR Media Megabit Megabyte MFM encoding MFT Microdrive Mini-SATA N NON-DOS partition Non-volatile NTFS O Currently no listings P Park Partition Permanent storage Phdisk PIO PK Platter Preformatted Primary Primary channel Primary partition Q Currently no listings R RAID RAMAC RAM disk Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Reformat Removable hard drive Retentive Ribbon cable Rigid disk RLL encoding RPM S SATA SATADIMM 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 Soft-sectored disk Source data disk Spindle Step motor Storage Storage devices Store Super block System partition T TB Terabyte Thin Film Media Thrashing TPI Track Track pitch Transducer U UDMA Unpark Used space V VBR VFAT VHD Voice coil Volume label Volume name W Winchester disk Wpcomp Write error Write Precomp X Currently no listings Y Currently no listings Z ZBR Zebibyte Zero filling Zoned recording Back to the computer dictionary
