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Hot-Swap – This feature allows you to connect and disconnect
external devices while the computer and the devices are running.
External drives, such as the Maxtor Personal Storage 5000 can
be hot-swapped.
KB – (Kilobyte) Equal to 1,000 (thousand) bytes.
MB – (Megabyte) Equal to 1,000,000 (million) bytes.
Mb – (Megabit) When used to describe data storage, equal to
one million bits.
Mbps – (Megabits per second) When used to described data
transfer rates, it refers to one million bits per second.
NTFS – The primary file system for Windows 2000 and XP
operating system that organizes files on your computer. Supports
large capacity hard drives up to 2 TB.
Operating System – Software that allows the user and
programs installed on your system to communicate with
computer hardware such as a hard drive and processor.
Partition – A way to logically divide a hard drive so that an
operating system treats each partition as if it were a separate
hard drive. Each partition is assigned a unique drive letter in
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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.
ScanDisk – A utility for Windows 98SE and Me that finds and
corrects errors in the file system on a hard drive.
Script – A saved backup procedure for Retrospect that you can
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.
Spin Down – Refers to the actually spinning of the disk
mechanism. When a disk spins down, it stops spinning, thus
conserving power.
Startup Disk – The drive from which the operating system
loads to start up your computer.
TB – (Terabyte) Equal to 1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) bytes.
USB – Universal Serial Bus, a standard for connecting external
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.