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Data Recovery Glossary

For better understanding of any concept, glossary plays a vital role. Data Recovery Glossary section of our website provides a list of technical and standard terms, with their definitions and explanations. The alphabetical list here provides obscure, obsolete, unusual and technical explanation of varied data recovery terms. Data Recovery Glossary provides you with special terms used in particular data recovery with more in-depth explanations and definitions.

ATA	Dedicated Servo	Kilobyte	Smart Card
ATAPI	Denial-of-Service Attack	Landing Zone	Spindle
Audit Trail	Downtime	Low Level Format	Track
Average Seek Time	ECC	MTBF	Transfer rate
BIOS	EIDE	MTTR	Terabyte
BIT	E-mail Bombs	Megabyte	Trojan Horse
Buffer	Embedded Servo	Megahertz	Ultra ATA/100
Buffer Overflow	File Allocation Table	Mirroring	Universal Serial Bus
Buffer Under-Run	Firmware	Operating System	Utilities Program
Byte	Fibre channel	Partitioning	Unformatted capacity
Cache	Firewire	Platter	Virus
Clean Room	Flying Height	Quarantine	Virus scanner
CD-R	Gigabyte(GB)	RAID	Winchester Disks
CRC	HDA	RAID 0	Worm
Cylinder	Head	RAID 1
Corrupt Data	Head actuator	RAID 5
Cracker	Hard drive	RAID 10
Cryptography	Hard disk	RAM
Data Recovery	Head Crash	ROM
Directory	High Level Formatting	RLL
Disk	Interface	Ribbon Cable
Disk cache	IDE	SCSI
Disk drive	I/O (Input/Output)	Sector
Data Safe	Jumper	Seek time

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