| defragment | | Another name for low-profile 3.5 inch drive |
| sector | | Interface for Type I, II or III devices (abbr) |
| contiguous | | Condition when parts of files are scattered around hard drive |
| Serial | | State of disk surface when new |
| two | | Contains bootstrap program (abbr) |
| capacity | | Another term for IDE |
| electroplating | | The housing for hard drive internal components (abbr) |
| POST | | Term used to describe physical dimensions of hard drives (two words) |
| controller | | Two or more sectors containing the sequential file data |
| reversal | | Cylinders, Heads and Sectors (abbr) |
| fragmentation | | The attribute vendors like to point out most |
| MBR | | New bio/chemical process to create recordable surface (first word) |
| CHS | | Early material used in disc foundation |
| Kittyhawk | | One factor that makes glass and composite preferable over alloys |
| HDA | | Type of coating; rust colored |
| medialayer | | Empty case to make your own external hard drive |
| formfactor | | Exposing disk to vapor for the deposition of metallic substance |
| Linux | | Operating system that allows 16 daisy chained drives |
| PCMCIA | | Company that produced ST506 |
| CompactFlash | | Method of deposity magnetic material onto a disk |
| areal | | Smallest storage unit on a hard drive |
| scuzzy | | Company that introduced first hard drive |
| slimline | | Glass/Ceremic compound used in disk manufacturing |
| raw | | Maximun number of IDE devices per channel (word) |
| sputtering | | Type of environment you should be in to open HDA (two words) |
| beta | | Environmental byproduct of larger platters and motors |
| readseek | | Larger capacity 3.5 inch drive used in server market (two words) |
| Oxide | | Test BIOS performs to make sure system is ready to go (abbr) |
| partitioning | | Average time it takes to reposition heads from one position to another (two words) |
| permanent | | Reorganizing sector contects to reduce seek time |
| cleanroom | | Type of storage -- never fades |
| medialayer | | Largest factor in drive performance (abbr) |
| laptop | | Changing the polarity of particles, flux ___________ |
| SCSI | | Another term used to describe the C drive |
| readwrite | | Concentric rings |
| cylinder | | Heat and noise |
| Firewire | | Symbol that replaces first character in file name in the allocation table (word) |
| memcor | | ATA/133 was the last of its breed (abbr) |
| aluminum | | High speed external connection |
| aesthetics | | Small flimsy storage device, outdated now (two words) |
| tracks | | Act of creating a file system |
| rigidity | | Dividing hard drive into logical units |
| fullstroke | | Faster of the two ATA categories -- first word |
| Seagate | | Opposite of internal hard drive |
| halfheight | | Permanent storage for cameras |
| formatting | | The foundation in a disk |
| FAT | | Mounted to the outside of the hard drive case -- contains memory and processory functionality |
| volume | | The density of bits that can be stored in a given area |
| floppydisk | | Small Computer System Interface (abbr) |
| Seagate | | Magnets on the end of armitures found inside hard drive (two words) |
| substrate | | Announciation for high end hard drives; found in server market |
| heat | | Where data is recorded (two words) |
| enclosure | | Microdrive by HP ahead of its time |
| nanocrystal | | Disk found inside the head disk assembly |
| PATA | | Very thin coating of magnetic material (two words) |
| platter | | Memory for hard drives |
| RPM | | The set of all rings on all disks at concentric point |
| external | | Time it takes for heads to move from inner most position to outer most position (two words) |
| buffer | | Target market for 2.5" drive form factor |
| ATA | | Table that contains physical addresses of all sectors (abbr) |
