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| PNP | Plug and Play - a standard for the connection of peripherals to personal computers, whereby a device only needs to be connected to a computer in order to be configured to work perfectly, without any action by the user. |
| Network Printer | are specifically designed for connecting directly to a computer network and shared by different users. |
| Print Driver | is a piece of software that converts the data to be printed to the form specific to a printer. |
| InfiniBand | is a computer-networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. |
| eSATA | External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment - is an extension to the Serial ATA standard that enables SATA drives to be attached externally. |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a common interface that enables communication between devices and a host controller such as a personal computer (PC). |
| USB 3 | also known as SuperSpeed USB it can transmit at speeds up to 5gbps (640MBps)—over ten times as fast as the 2.0 maximum. |
| ISCSI | Internet Small Computer System Interface |
| Firewire | Otherwise known as IEEE 1394, this is a standard type of connection for many different kinds of devices like digital video cameras |
| Volume | In computer data storage, this is also called a logical drive which is a single accessible storage area with a single file system, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk |
| Patrician | is a division of a hard disk drive which is created when your format the disk. |
| Mirroring | is the replication of logical disk volumes onto separate physical hard disks in real time to ensure continuous availability. It is most commonly used in RAID 1. |
| Spanning | a popular method for combining multiple physical disk drives into a single logical disk. |
| Stripping | is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across multiple storage devices, such as hard disks or solid-state drives (SSDs). |
| RAID 0 | also known as a stripe set or striped volume splits ("stripes") data evenly across two or more disks, without parity information, redundancy, or fault tolerance. |
| RAID 1 | A popular disk subsystem that increases safety by writing the same data on two drives. |
| VHD | Virtual Hard Disk |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| Microsoft OneDrive | This is Microsoft's Cloud storage solution that lets you easily backup, store and share photos, videos, documents, and more – anywhere, on any device. |
| Fragmentation | Refers to the condition of a disk in which files are divided into pieces scattered around the disk. |
| LTP Port | Short for Line Printer Terminal, LPT is used by IBM compatible computers as an identification for the parallel port, such as LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. |
| .prn | File extension used when printing to a file |
| XPS | Microsoft's equivalent to Adobe Acrobat |
| Infrared input | any input device like a mouse or keyboard that connects to the computer using this form of light waves |
| Device Manger | is a Control Panel applet in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It allows users to view and control the hardware attached to the computer. |
