disk storage device
61Cylinder (disk drive) — A disk drive cylinder is a division of data in a disk drive, as used in the CHS addressing mode of a Fixed Block Architecture disk or the cylinder–head–record (CCHHR) addressing mode of a CKD disk. The concept is concentric, hollow, cylindrical… …
62Direct-attached storage — (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non networked storage from SAN and NAS. Contents 1 Features 2 Storage… …
63Network block device — In Linux, a network block device is a device node whose content is provided by a remote machine. Typically, network block devices are used to access a storage device that does not physically reside in the local machine but on a remote one. As an… …
64Target Disk Mode — (sometimes referred to as TDM or Target Mode ) is a boot mode for Macintosh computers wherein the Mac does not load the operating system, but instead behaves as a FireWire mass storage device with the SBP 2 (Serial Bus Protocol) standard. Target… …
65Magnetic storage — and magnetic recording are terms from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetization in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form of non volatile memory.… …
66magnetic disk — noun (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored • Syn: ↑magnetic disc, ↑disk, ↑disc • Derivationally related forms: ↑diskette (for: ↑ …
67SCSI Peripheral Device Type — A SCSI Peripheral Device Type is a way of describing what capabilities are provided by a SCSI device. It is a five bit field which can be found in the Standard Inquiry Data provided in response to an Inquiry Command. This field was defined in the …
68hard disk drive — A storage device that uses a set of rotating, magnetically coated disks called platters to store data or programs. In everyday use, the terms hard disk, hard disk drive, and hard drive are used interchangeably, because the disk and the drive… …
69Fiber disk laser — A fiber disk laser is a fiber laser with transverse delivery of the pump light. They are characterized by the pump beam not being parallel to the active core of the optical fiber (as in a double clad fiber), but directed to the coil of the fiber… …
70secondary storage — noun a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer • Syn: ↑auxiliary storage, ↑external storage • Hypernyms: ↑memory device, ↑storage device * * * Computers. storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main… …
