Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV User Manual page 38

This feature allows you to connect and
Hot-Swap –
disconnect external devices while the computer and the
devices are running. External drives, such as the Maxtor
Personal Storage 5000 can be hot-swapped.
(Kilobyte) Equal to 1,000 (thousand) bytes.
KB –
(Megabyte) Equal to 1,000,000 (million) bytes.
MB –
(Megabit) When used to describe data storage, equal to
Mb –
one million bits.
Mbps – (Megabits per second) When used to described data
transfer rates, it refers to one million bits per second.
The primary file system for Windows 2000 and XP
NTFS –
operating system that organizes files on your computer.
Supports large capacity hard drives up to 2 TB.
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Operating System –
programs installed on your system to communicate with
computer hardware such as a hard drive and processor.
A way to logically divide a hard drive so that an
Partition –
operating system treats each partition as if it were a separate
hard drive. Each partition is assigned a unique drive letter
(Windows) or icon (Mac OS).
Port – A connection or socket on the motherboard, controller
card, case, or chassis for connecting peripheral devices, such as
a USB socket or FireWire socket.
A utility for Windows 98SE and Me that finds
ScanDisk –
and corrects errors in the file system on a hard drive.
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Software that allows the user and
A saved backup procedure for Retrospect that you can
Script –
schedule to run at some future date and time or on a repeating
schedule, such as daily. You may create as many scripts as you
wish.
Refers to the actually spinning of the disk
Spin Down –
mechanism. When a disk spins down, it stops spinning, thus
conserving power.
The drive from which the operating system
Startup Disk –
loads to start up your computer.
(Terabyte) Equal to 1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) bytes.
TB –
Universal Serial Bus, a standard for connecting external
USB –
devices to your computer.
Volume – A fixed amount of storage on a hard drive. The
term volume is often used as a synonym for the drive itself, but
it is possible for a single drive to contain more than one volume
or for a volume to span more than one drive.