Understanding Drive Terms; Terms For Types Of Drives; Terms For Drive Media - Compaq N800v - Evo Notebook - Pentium 4-M 1.7 GHz Hardware Manual

Drives

Understanding Drive Terms

Terms for Types of Drives

A drive that can be inserted or removed from the notebook or an
optional port replicator is a standard removable drive. A drive
that can be inserted or removed from a MultiBay is a MultiBay
drive. A drive that connects to a USB connector is a USB drive.
A hard drive is usually used for the permanent storage of data
files and software such as system files, applications, and drivers.
A hard drive is sometimes called a hard disk drive or the HDD.
Disk drives include diskette drives, SuperDisk drives, and Zip
drives. SuperDisk and Zip drives are high-capacity disk drives.
Disk drives are often used to store or transport data. The notebook
can read or write to any MultiBay disk drive. A diskette drive is
sometimes called a floppy disk drive, floppy drive, or FDD.
Optical drives include CD and DVD drives. Optical drives are
used to store or transport data and to play music and movies.
DVD drives have the higher capacity. The notebook can read or
write to optical drives as described in the following table.
Optical Drive
CD-ROM drive
CD-RW drive
DVD-ROM drive
DVD-RAM drive
DVD/CD-RW drive

Terms for Drive Media

A diskette, disk, or disc that can be inserted or removed from a
drive is referred to as a drive medium. In this guide a diskette is
used in a diskette drive, a disk is used in a high-capacity disk
drive, and a disc is used in an optical drive.
4–2
Read
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Write
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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