A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All
Ablative
Access
Access arm
Access time
Actuator
Address
Antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media
Arbitrated loop
Areal Density
AT
ATA
Average seek time
Backup
Bad block
Bandwidth
Bernoulli box
Bit
Bit error rate
Block
Boot drive
BPI
BPSI
Bubble memory
Buffer
Bus
Byte
Cache memory
Capacity
Channel
Client/server
Cluster
Coercivity
Coercivity (Hc)
Cold swap
Compression
Control track
Controller
Controller card
Cross talk level
Curie point
Cylinder
Data cartridge
Data library
Data transfer
Decompression
Dedicated servo
Defect management
Defects
Disk
Disk array
Disk cartridge
Disk controller
Disk drive
Disk drive controller
Disk mirroring
Disk sector
Disk server
Disk stripping
Disk, optical
Diskette
DMA
Domain
Drive geometry
Drive, disk
Dual-stage actuators
ECC
Embedded servo
Encoding
Enhanced IDE
EPROM
Erasable
Erase head
Error correcting code
Error rate
Exclusive OR
External storage
Fast SCSI
Fault tolerance
FCI
Ferric oxide
Fiber channel
File
Firmware
Flash disk
Flash memory
Floppy disk
Fly Height
Form factor
Format
Formatted capacity
Formatting
Frame
Grooved disk
Half height
Hard disk
Hard error
Head
Head crash
Head skew
Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)
Helical scan
Host adapter
Hot spare
Hot swapping
Hub
IDE
Inductive thin-film head
Inductive thin-film media
Interface
Interface
Interface controller
Interleave
Interleaved factor
ISO formal A
Jukebox
Kerr effect
Kilobytes (KB)
Land & groove
Landing zone
Laser
Laser diode
Latency
Link
Low profile
Magnetic disk
Magnetic recording
Magneto-optic
Magnetoresistive (MR)
Media
Megabyte (MB)
Member disk
Metallurgy
MFM
Mirroring
MR (magnetoresistive) head
MR (magnetoresistive) media
MTBF
Network
Node
Oe (Oersted)
Optical disk
Overhead
Overwrite
Parity
Partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) data ch
Partition
Patterned media
PC card
PCB
PCMCIA
Performance
Peripheral
Perpendicular recording
Phase change
Platter
Platter
Preformatted disk
Protective layer
RAID
RAM
Read after write
Read error
Read only
Read power
Read verify
Read/write
Read/write head
Recording density
Recording layer
Reed-Solomon code
Reflectivity
Rewritable
ROM
SCSI
Sector
Sector
Sector ID
Seek
Seek time
Serial Interface
Shock rating
Signal-to-noise ratio
Slider
Soft error
Soft error
Spindle
Spindle
Spindle clamp
Spot size
Squarer magnetic bits
Storage density
Striping
Substrate
Substrate
Tape drive
Thin film
TPI
Track
Track-to-track seek time
Transfer rate
Type I
Type II
Unformatted capacity
Voice coil
Warm swap
Winchester disk
WORM
Write power
Write-once
Yield
Zone-textured disk
