A standard for managing the interface between secondary storage devices and a computer system. A system can support up to six serial ATA and parallel ATA IDE devices such as hard drives, CD-ROM drives and DVD drives
What is EIDE (Enhanced IDE)
100
Another term for boot record.
What is Boot sector
100
A computer's ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe, such as a hardware failure or power outage, so that data is not lost.
What is Fault Tolerance
100
The 12-bit wide ,one-column file allocation table for a floppy disk, containing information about how each cluster or file allocation unit on the disk is currently used.
What is FAT12
200
A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
What is Hybrid hard drives
200
The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
What is Terminating Resistor
200
A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically indentifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
What is Autodetection
200
A number assigned to a logical device (such as a tray in a CD changer) that is part of a physical SCSI device, which is assigned a SCSI ID.
What is LUN (Logic Unit Number)
200
A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
What is S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
300
An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires, 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
What is 80-conductor IDE cable
300
A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
What is FAT (File allocation table)
300
Having the ablilty to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running.
What is Hot-swapping
300
A drive that can hold either a 5 1/4 inch or 3 1/2 in disk.
What is Floppy disk drive (FDD)
300
Technology uses an array of hard drives used to provide fault tolerance and/or improvement in preformance.
What is RAID (Redundant array of inexpensive disks or Redundant array of independent disks)
400
A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attched to the daisy chain.
What is SCSI ID
400
The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two.
What is Head
400
A transfer data from the hard drive to memory It's slower then DMA mode.
What is PIO (programmed Input/Output
400
Comes in two sizes for personal computers: the 2.5" sized is used for laptops and 3.5" size is used for desktops. In addition, a smaller 1.8" size (about the size of a credit card) is used in some low-end laptops and other equipment such as MP3 players. ALL three sizes use the same type of hardware technologies
What is Hard disk drive (HDD)
400
A drive with no moving parts.
What is solid state device (SSD)
500
Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disk.
What is eSATA ( External SATA)
500
A non-profit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
What is ANSI (America National Standards Institute)
500
An interface standard, part of the IDE/ATA standards, that allows tape drives, CD-ROM drives, and other drives to be treated like an IDE hard drive by system.
What is ATAPI (Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface)
500
A fast interface between a host adapter and the CPU that can daisy chain as many as 7 or 15 devices on a single bus.
What is SCSI (Small computer system interface
500
A transfer mode used by devices. including the hard drive, to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.