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| 34-pin ribbon cable | type of cable used by floppy disk drives |
| 3 ½-ich floppy drive | all modern floppy disk drives are of this size, the format was introduced in 1986 and is one of the longest surviving pieces of computer hardware |
| ATAPI- compliant | devices that utilize the ATAPI standard |
| AutoPlay | windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 setting, along with autorun. Inf, enabling Windows to automatically detect media files and begin using them |
| Autorun.inf | file included on some media that automatically launches a program or installation routine when the media is inserted?/attached to a system |
| BD-ROM | Blu-ray Disc equivalent of a DVD-RCM or CD-ROM |
| Blu-ray Disc (BD) | optical disc format that stores 25 or 50 GB of data, designed to be the replacement media for DVD |
| Blu-ray Disc rewritable(BD-RE) | BLU-RAY disc equivalent of the rewritable DVD, allows writing and rewriting several times on the same BD |
| Buffer underrun | usually seen in mother-boards supporting more than four sticks of RAM, it is required to address interferences issues caused by the additional sticks |
| Card reader | device with which you can read data from one of several types of flash memory |
| Cd-Digital Audio (CDDA) | special formal used for early CD-ROMs and all audio CDs; divides data into variable length tracks. A good format to use for audio tracks but terrible for data because of lack of error checking |
| Cd- recordable (CD-R) | CD technology that accepts a single “ burn” but cannot be erased after the one burn |
| Cd rewritable(CD-RW) | CD technology that accepts multiple reads/writes like a hard drive |
| CD-ROM | read-only compact storage disk for audio or video data. Recordable devices, such as CD-Rs are updated versions of the older CD-ROM drives |
| CompactFlash(CF) | one of the older but still popular flash media formats. Its interface uses a simplified PC Card bus, so nit also supports I/O devices |
| Digital versatile disc (DVD) | optical disc format that provides for 4-17 GB of video or data storage |
| DVD-ROM | DVD equivalent of the standard CD-ROM |
| DVD-RW | rewritable DVD equivalent of the standard CD-ROM |
| DVD-video | DVD format used exclusively to store digital video; capable of storing over 2 hours of high-quality video on a single DVD |
| floppy disk | removable storage media that can hold between 720 KB and 1.44 MB of Data |
| floppy drive | system hardware that uses removable 3.5inch disks as storage media |
| ISO file | complete copy (or image) of a storage media device, typically used for optical discs |
| ISO-9660 | CD format to support PC file systems on CD media. Supplanted by the Joliet format |
| Memory stick | device or medium for temporary storage of programs and data during program execution. Synonymous with storage, although it most frequently refers to the internal storage of a computer that can be directly addressed by operating instructions |
| Mini power connector | very popular, 1/8 inch diameter connector used to transmit two audio signals; perfect for stereo sound |
| MPEG-2 | standard of video and audio compression offering resolutions up to 180 x 720 at 60 frames per second |
| MPEG-4 | standard of video and audio compression offing improved compression over MPEG-2 |
| Multisession drive | recordable CD drive capable of burning multiple sessions onto a single recordable disc |
| Music CD-R | cd using a special format for home recorder. Music cd-r makers pay a small royally to avoid illegal music duplication |
| Optical disc | types of data discs |
| Optical drive | drive used to read/write to optical discs, such as CDs or DVDs |
| Pin l | designator used to ensure proper alignment of floppy disk drive and hard drive connectors |
| Secure Digital(SD) | very popular format for flash medias cards; also support I/O devices |
| Smart Media | format for flash media card, no longer used with new devices |
| Universal data format (UDF) | replaced the ISO-9660 formats, allowing any operating system and optical drive to read UDF formatted disks |
| USB thumb drive | flash memory device that users the standard USB connection |
