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 | Small flimsy storage device, outdated now (two words) |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 |