Terms to Know

active partition

array

backup

boot partition

burst mode

CD

CD-R

CD-RW

daisy chain

disk controller

DMA

DVD

EIDE

extended partition

fault tolerance

hard drive

IDE

I/O channel

jumpers

logical drive

master

offline storage

online data storage

parity

PC card

physical hard drive

primary partition

RAID

SCSI

slave

termination

throughput

volume