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| Any type of mass storage device that you may use in one system and then physically remove from that system and use in another. |
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| An initiative forwarded by Microsoft and Intel back in 2001 to rid computers of old technologies such as PS/2 ports, serial ports, parallel ports, and floppy drives. |
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| The 3 1/2 inch wide removable media that stored 1.44 MB. |
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| The cable that connects a floppy drive to the motherboard. |
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| The power connector used for 3 1/2 floppy drives. If installed incorrectly it will destroy the floppy drive. |
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| The oldest, most complex, and physically largest of all removable flash media cards. It is roughly 1 inch wide, uses a simplified PCMCIA bus for interconnection, and comes in two sizes: CF I (3.3mm thick) and CF II (5mm thick). |
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| True hard drives, using platters and read/write heads that fit into the tiny CF form factor. They are slower and use more power than flash drives. |
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| Secure Digital (SD) Cards |
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| The most common flash media format today. It comes in two smaller forms called MiniSD and MicroSD. |
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| One of the three SD card storage capacities that stores from 4MB to 4 GB. |
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| Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) |
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| One of the three SD card storage capacities that stores from 4GB to 32GB. |
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| Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) |
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| One of the three SD card storage capacities that stores from 32Gb to 2TB. |
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| Flash memory used mainly by Sony and has several formats including Standard, Pro, Duo, Pro Duo, and Micro. |
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| Extreme Digital (XD) Picture Cards |
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| Flash memory that is almost exclusively used in Olympus and Fujifilm digital cameras. This type of flash memory comes in three flavors: original, Standard (Type M), and Hi-Speed (Type H). |
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| Used to access the data on every type of flash memory. |
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| The generic term for all the different types of shiny, 12cm wide discs such as CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Discs. |
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| One of the types of optical discs that was originally designed as a replacement for vinyl records. They store data via Microscopic pits and only one one side of the disc. |
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| Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) |
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| One of the types of optical discs that eliminated VHS cassette tapes from the commercial home movie market and has also grown into a contender for backups and high-capacity storage. This optical disc uses smaller pits than CDs, comes in both single-sided (SS) and double-sided (DS) formats, and comes in single-layer (SL) and dual-layer (DL) formats. |
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| One of the types of optical discs that eliminated the High-Definition DVD (HD DVD) format to become the only high-definition and high-capacity optical format. This optical disc has storage capacity of up to 25 GB (single-layer disc) and 50 GB (dual-layer disc). They come in two physical sizes: standard and mini. |
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| Non-pitted spots on a CD. |
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| A special CD format that divides the CD's data into variable-length tracks; on music CDs, each song gets one track. It is an excellent way to store music, but is a horrible way to store data because it lacks any error checking, file support, or directory structure. |
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| This CD format divides the CD into fixed sectors, each holding 2353 bytes. |
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| ISO-9660 or CD File System (CDFS) |
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| The file system used for CD-ROMs. |
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| CD discs that enable CD-Burners to add (burn) data to them. They came in two varieties: a 74-minute disc that holds approximately 650 MB, and an 80-minute variety that holds approximately 700 MB. Once data was burned onto the disc, the data can't be erased or changed. |
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| A CD-R drive that allows multiple burn sessions so you can go back and burn additional data onto the CD-R disc until the disc is full. These drives can also "close" a partially filled CD-R so that no more data can be burned onto that disc. |
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| CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) Drives |
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| This type of drive replaced CD-R drives. It enables you not only to burn disc, but to burn over existing data on a CD-RW disc. |
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| Universal Data Format (UDF) |
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| The file format that replaced ISO-9660, resulting in a single file format that any drive and operating system can read. It supports a feature called Mount Rainier or packet writing, which works with it so you can copy individual files back and forth like a hard drive. |
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| It means they plug into the ATA controllers on the motherboard, so you dont need to install drivers. All optical drives are this. |
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| Discs used for home recorders. You can record to it but you cannot record from it. |
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| A piece of software that takes standard CD-audio files and compresses them, using specialized algorithms, into much smaller files while maintaining most of the audio qualities of the original file. |
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| The appropriate area that an audo file is dragged to when burning onto a CD. |
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| Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) |
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| A group of compression standards for both audio and video. |
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| DVD-video relies on this standard of video and audio compression. It offers resolutions of up to 1280 * 720 at 60 frames per second (fps), with full CD-quality audio. |
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| This stores up to almost 16 GB of data and is the equivalent of the standard CD-ROM data format. |
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| The equivalent of the standard DVD-ROM data format except it can store much more data and produces superior audio and video results. |
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| A complete copy of an optical disc. |
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| Encoding that enables you to play those movies only on a player that shares the same code. |
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| It stores the incoming data from the recording source. Every CD, DVD, and Blu-ray disc burner comes with it onboard. |
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| The inibility of the source device to keep the burner loaded with data. |
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| Improperly burned and therfore unless CDs, DVDs, and blu-ray discs. |
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