LaCie Hard Drive User Manual page 47

LaCie Hard Drive User's Manual Glossary
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the disk drive may not be the same as the transfer rate for writing data to the disk drive. Transfer rates are CPU dependent,
meaning that regardless of how great a transfer rate your drive is capable of, the actual transfer rate can only be as fast as
the slowest of your hard drive and computer.
Volume – A desktop mountable storage area, may be a partition of a hard drive, a removable disk or a cartridge. Typically
measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes.
Utility – Software designed to perform maintenance tasks on the system or its components. Examples include backup pro-
grams, programs to retrieve files and data on disk, programs for preparing (or formatting) a disk or and resource editors.