| Across |
| 1. | Concentric rings |
| 6. | Table that contains physical addresses of all sectors (abbr) |
| 8. | Maximun number of IDE devices per channel (word) |
| 11. | Target market for 2.5" drive form factor |
| 12. | Announciation for high end hard drives; found in server market |
| 15. | Another name for low-profile 3.5 inch drive |
| 16. | Small Computer System Interface (abbr) |
| 18. | Company that produced ST506 |
| 19. | Average time it takes to reposition heads from one position to another (two words) |
| 20. | State of disk surface when new |
| 23. | Empty case to make your own external hard drive |
| 25. | Type of environment you should be in to open HDA (two words) |
| 26. | Reorganizing sector contects to reduce seek time |
| 28. | Type of storage -- never fades |
| 29. | Opposite of internal hard drive |
| 32. | Act of creating a file system |
| 33. | Condition when parts of files are scattered around hard drive |
| 34. | New bio/chemical process to create recordable surface (first word) |
| 36. | The density of bits that can be stored in a given area |
| 37. | Environmental byproduct of larger platters and motors |
| 38. | Company that introduced first hard drive |
| 39. | Small flimsy storage device, outdated now (two words) |
| 40. | Permanent storage for cameras & pen drives; no moving parts |
| 42. | Very thin coating of magnetic material (two words) |
| 44. | Mounted to the outside of the hard drive case -- contains memory and processory functionality |
| 45. | Another term used to describe the C drive |
| 46. | Operating system that allows 16 daisy chained drives |
| 48. | One factor that makes glass and composite preferable over alloys |
| 50. | Where data is recorded (two words) |
| 51. | Test BIOS performs to make sure system is ready to go (abbr) |
| 52. | Interface for Type I, II or III devices (abbr) |
| 54. | Microdrive by HP ahead of its time |
| 55. | Another term for IDE |
| 56. | Glass/Ceremic compound used in disk manufacturing |