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| ATAPI | The ANSI specification for ATA (IDE) CD-ROM and tape drives. |
| Blu-ray | High Definition optical disk that can store up to 50GB of data. |
| Bps | Bits per second |
| CD | Compact Disc; optical disc used to store audio or data files; capacity is 700MB. |
| DVD | Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc; optical storage media used fo rmovies and data; holds 4.7GB. |
| Floppy disk | early storage media tha held 1.44 MB of data. |
| Hard drive | the primary storage devices on a computer consisting of magnetic spinning platters and read/write heads. |
| Master | controller device that initiates commands and has a slave device to respond to the commands. |
| Memory Card Reader | Device used to connect flash memory cards to the PC and allow for data transfer. |
| PATA | Parallel Advanced Technology Attached another name for IDE drives. |
| Platter | circular magnetic disk used to store data in a hard drive |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk, a configuration of more than one storage drive use for faster read/write speeds and fail safe data storage. |
| Removable media | Storage devices that can have data written to and read fromthemand can be easily moved from one computer to another. |
| Ribbon cable | thin, flat, cnductor used to attachfloppy drives and hard drives or other IDE devices to the motherboard. |
| RPM | Revolutions Per Minute; the speed at which the platters rotate on a hard drive. |
| SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
| Sectors | the smallest addressable storage unit on a hard drive. |
| Slave | device that receives commands from a master devices and responds according to the commands received. |
| SSD | Solid State Drive; a storage device tha uses flash memory chips and has no moving parts. |
| Tape drive | storage device that only allows for sequential access of data; take s extra time to wind media to find a particular piece of data; typeiclly used fo ra backup device. |
| USB Flash drives | flash memory card that many people carry data on to get the data from one computer to another |
| Zip Drive | 3.5 drive that uses high capacity floppy disks of 100 to 750MB; the diskettes are much thicker than a regular floppy disk. |
