Hard Drives

Study Guide for Hard Drive Unit

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Across
4.	Type of coating; rust colored
5.	The foundation in a disk
9.	Announciation for high end hard drives; found in server market
12.	Test BIOS performs to make sure system is ready to go (abbr)
14.	Company that introduced first hard drive
14.	Company that produced ST506
18.	Target market for 2.5" drive form factor
20.	Reorganizing sector contects to reduce seek time
21.	Act of creating a file system
22.	Operating system that allows 16 daisy chained drives
24.	Larger capacity 3.5 inch drive used in server market (two words)
25.	Type of environment you should be in to open HDA (two words)
26.	Memory for hard drives
28.	Time it takes for heads to move from inner most position to outer most position (two words)
29.	Permanent storage for cameras & pen drives; no moving parts
31.	Very thin coating of magnetic material (two words)
31.	Where data is recorded (two words)
35.	Method of deposity magnetic material onto a disk
39.	Dividing hard drive into logical units
40.	Another term for IDE
43.	Average time it takes to reposition heads from one position to another (two words)
44.	Environmental byproduct of larger platters and motors
46.	The density of bits that can be stored in a given area
48.	Magnets on the end of armitures found inside hard drive (two words)
49.	Mounted to the outside of the hard drive case -- contains memory and processory functionality
52.	Small flimsy storage device, outdated now (two words)
53.	Opposite of internal hard drive
54.	Glass/Ceremic compound used in disk manufacturing
55.	The set of all rings on all disks at concentric point
56.	Another name for low-profile 3.5 inch drive
57.	The housing for hard drive internal components (abbr)

Down
1.	Another term used to describe the C drive
2.	One factor that makes glass and composite preferable over alloys
3.	Small Computer System Interface (abbr)
6.	Exposing disk to vapor for the deposition of metallic substance
7.	Largest factor in drive performance (abbr)
8.	Cylinders, Heads and Sectors (abbr)
10.	ATA/133 was the last of its breed (abbr)
11.	Early material used in disc foundation
13.	Concentric rings
15.	Microdrive by HP ahead of its time
16.	Heat and noise
17.	Smallest storage unit on a hard drive
19.	Type of storage -- never fades
23.	New bio/chemical process to create recordable surface (first word)
27.	Condition when parts of files are scattered around hard drive
28.	Term used to describe physical dimensions of hard drives (two words)
30.	State of disk surface when new
32.	Empty case to make your own external hard drive
33.	Disk found inside the head disk assembly
34.	Faster of the two ATA categories -- first word
36.	Two or more sectors containing the sequential file data
37.	Changing the polarity of particles, flux ___________
38.	Interface for Type I, II or III devices (abbr)
41.	Table that contains physical addresses of all sectors (abbr)
42.	The attribute vendors like to point out most
45.	High speed external connection
47.	Maximun number of IDE devices per channel (word)
50.	Contains bootstrap program (abbr)
51.	Symbol that replaces first character in file name in the allocation table (word)

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