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| The main secondary storage device of a computer. |
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| Two technologies of hard drives |
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| Other term for hard drive |
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Memory used in SSD drives.
Name refers to logic used when storing a 1 or 0 in the grid of rows and columns on the memory chip |
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| HDD that uses both magnetic and SSD technologies. Bulk of storage uses the magnetic component and a storage buffer on the drive is made of an SSD component. |
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| The Windows 7/Vista technology that supports a hybrid hard drive |
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| A process (usually performed at the factory) that electronically creates the hard drive tracks and sectors and tests for bad spots on the disk surface. |
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| Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology |
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| System BIOS and hard drive feature that monitors HDD performance, disk spin up time, temp, distance between head and disk, and other mechanical activities of the drive in order to predict when the drive is likely to fail. |
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older IDE cableing method that uses a 40-pin flat/round data cable
or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector |
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| An ATAPI interface standard that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable and is easier to configure than PATA systems. |
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| American National Standards Institute |
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| A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards. |
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| PATA standard that supports the configuration of 4 IDE devices in a system |
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| An interface standard, part of the IDE/ATA standards, that allows tape drives, optical drives, and other drives to be treated like an IDE hard drive by the system |
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| Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface |
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| A transfer mode used by devices, including the hard drive, to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU. |
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A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory.
Slower than DMA mode. |
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| Small Computer System Interface |
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| 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. |
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| An electronic device with no moving parts. A storage device that uses memory chips to store data rather than spinning disks. |
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| jump drives, thumb drives, key drives, flash memory cards, solid state disk hard drives |
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| Examples of Solid State Devices |
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Solid state disk
solid state drive
solid state device |
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