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Access Interface
Access Time Interface
Active Partition Interface controller
Active Termination Interleave
Actuator Interrupt
Actuator Arm Invalid files
Adaptive Caching ISA
Address Jumper
AFR Jumper
Allocation Jumper
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Just-in-time (JIT)
Analogue signals Kilobyte (KB)
Arbitrated Loop Kilobyte (KB)
Arbitration Kilobyte (KB)
Areal Density Knoppix
Areal Density Landing Zone
ASCII Landing Zone
ASCII Laser Textured Media
Asynchronous Transmission Latency
AT Bus Attachment (ATA-4) LBA (Logical Block Addressing)
AT/ATA Linear density
AT/ATA Local Area Network (LAN)
ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) Logical Address
Auto Defect Retirement Logical damage
Auto Park Logical Damage
Average Access Time Logical Drive
Average Seek Time Logical Recovery
Backup Logical recovery
Backup Logical storage unit
Backup Logical Storage Unit
Backup copy Logistics Model
Bad Block Low profile (LP)
Bandwidth Low Temperature
BIOS Low temperature
BIOS Low-level formatting
BIOS (Basic input/output system) Magnetic Flux
Bit Manufacturing Yield
Bit Master
Bit Master
Bit Master
Bit density Master Boot Record (MBR)
Bit density Master Boot Record (MBR)
Bit Density MB (Megabyte)
Block Mechanical Latencies
BOD Media
BOD Megabyte (MB)
BOM Megabyte (MB)
BOM Memory
Boot MFM (Multiple Frequency Modulation)
Boot Millisecond (ms)
Boot Mirror
Boot Record Mirror
Boot Record Mirror copy
BPI Mirror Copy
Buffer Mirroring
Buffer Mirroring
Buffer MR Heads (Magneto-resistive Heads)
Buffer Bandwidth MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure)
Bunny Suit MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
Burst Mode Transfer Rate MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
Bus MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)
Bus Multi-media
Bus Multi-media
Byte Multi-user
Byte Multi-user
Byte Network Computer
Byte No physical damage
Cable Select (CSEL) No Physical Damage
Cache NTFS
Capacity NTFS
Capacity NTFSprogs
Capacity Off Track
CD Off track
CD Operating system
Central Processing Unit (CPU) Operating System
Channel Operating System
Channel Assembly Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
CHKDSK Overwritten Data
Clean Room Overwritten data
Clean room P-List
Cluster Park Area
Cluster Park Area
Cluster Parted
CMOS Setup Partition
Command Aging Partition
Command Queuing Partition
Command Reordering Partition Table
Computer crash Partition Table
Computer Virus Passive Termination
Computer Virus PC
Controller PCB
Controller Card PCB
Correctable Error Peripheral
Corrupt copy PhotoRec
Customer Configuration Code (CCC) Physical Damage
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Physical damage
Cylinder Physical recovery
Cylinder Physical Recovery
Cylinder Platform
Cylinder, Head, Sector (CHS) Addressing Platter
Data Block Platter
Data block Platter
Data compression Port
Data compression Port
Data Destruction Pre-fetch
Data Recovery Primary Partition
Data Recovery PRML (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood)
Data Recovery Product Road Map
data recovery Programmed I/O
data recovery Protocol
Data Synchronizer Proximity Recording
Data Transfer Rate Qualification
Database Queue
Database Radial Path
Database RAID
DCFLdd RAID
dd (Unix) RAM
ddrescue RAM
Decode Random Access Memory (RAM)
Dedicated Landing Zone Raw data
Defect Free Raw Data
Defect Management Read Channel
Defect Management Read Verify
Degausser Read/Write Head
Deleted file Read/Write Head
Deleted File Read/write head
Differential SCSI Reading problems
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Reading Problems
Directory Recoverable Error
Directory Recovery point objective
Directory Recovery time objective
Disk Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID)
Disk RLL (Run Length Limited)
Disk ROM
Disk ROM
Disk Controller ROM (Read Only Memory)
Disk Crash Rotational Latency
Disk crash RPM (Revolutions per Minute)
Disk Drive SATA
Disk Drive Controller SATA
Disk First Aid SCA-2
Disk Operating System (DOS) SCSI
Disk Transfer Rate SCSI
Disk Utility SCSI Configure Automatically (SCAM)
Distribution Channel SCSI device
Drive SCSI-1
Driver SCSI-2
Driver SCSI-3
Drop damage Sector
DVD Sector
DVD Sector
EIDE (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics) Sector Slipping
Embedded Servo Control Seek
Encoding Seek Time
Encryption Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
Encryption Sequential Access
Enterprise Serial Storage Architecture (SAA)
EOD Server
EOD Server
EOM Server
EOM Servo Burst
Error Correction Code (ECC) Session
Error Log Session
Error Rate Shock Damage
Extended Partition Shock damage
FAT Single-ended SCSI
FAT Slave
FAT (File Allocation Table) Slave
FAT16 Slave
FAT16 Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
FAT32 Soft Error
FAT32 Soft Error
Fdisk Soft Error
Fdisk Soft Sectored
Fdisk Software
Fetch Software
Fibre Channel (FC) SPC
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) Spindle
File Spindle Motor
File Spindle Motor
File System Spindle motor
File system Spindle Speed
Firewire Spindle Synchronization
Firmware SpinRite
Firmware Stiction
FIT (Functional Integrity Testing) Storage Capacity
Floppy disk (FD) Storage medium
Floppy Disk (FD) Storage Medium
Floppy Interface Strap
Floppy interface Stripe set
Flow Control Stripe Set
Fly height Striping
Fly Height Striping
Foremost Sub-1000 PC
Form Factor Subsystem
Format Super Block
Format Super Block
Format Surface
Formatted Capacity Surface
Formatted Capacity Surface
Formatted Capacity Synchronous Transmission
Fragmented System Files
Fragmented System information
Free space System Information
Free Space System Integrator
fsck Tagged Queuing
Full-Duplex Tape
G-List Tape
G-List Task File
GB (Gigabyte) Terra byte(TB)
Gigabyte(GB) Terra Byte(TB)
Gigabyte(GB) TestDisk
Half-Duplex The Coroners Toolkit
Half-height Drives The Sleuth Kit
Hard Disk Thin Client Architecture
Hard disk (HD) Thin Film
Hard Disk (HD) Thin-Film Inductive Head (TFI)
Hard Drive Time taken to make a copy
Hard drive Time-to-Capacity
Hard Drive Time-to-Market
Hard Drive Industry Time-to-Quality
Hard Error Time-to-Volume
Hard Error TPI (Tracks per inch)
Hard Error Track
Hard Sectored Track
Hardware Track
Hardware Track-to-track Seek Time
HDA Transfer Rate
HDA Translating BIOS
Head Ubuntu Rescue Remix
Head Ultra DMA/33
Head Ultra SCSI
Head Actuator Un-correctable Error
Head Crash Unalignment
Head crash Unformatted Capacity
Head Crash Unicode
Head Disk Assembly (HDA) Unicode
Head Loading Zone Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Head Stack Assembly Unrecoverable Error
Header Untagged Queuing
Headerless Format Upgrade
High-end Market Virus Scanner
High-Level Format Viterbi Detection
Host Voice Coil
Host Adapter Volume
Host Interface Volume
Host Transfer Rate Volume
IDE Volume set
IDE Volume Set
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) Water damage
ILook IXimager Winchester Disk
Image Windows
Image Word
Index Pulse Signal Workstation
Initialization Write
Initiator Write Cache
Input Write Verify
Input/output (I/O) Zoned Recording
Interface