Higher-performance interfaces, including the faster transfer modes of both IDE/ATA and SCSI, require an interface over a high-speed local bus.
Megabyte (MB) - A unit of measurement equal to 1 million bytes or 1,024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes
Landing zone - A non-data area on the disk's inner cylinder where the heads can rest when the power is off.
Over time, several different standards have evolved to control how hard disks are connected to the other major system components used in the PC.
High-level formatting - Disc formatting performed by the operating system's format program (for example, the DOS FORMAT program). Among other things, the formatting program creates the root directory, file allocation tables, and other basic configurations.
MTBF - This refers to the mean time between failures. It is the reliability rating indicating the expected failure rate of a product in power on hours.
Embedded servo - A technique in which the space between sectors (intersector gaps) on each data surface of a disc are used to provide servo-positioning information. This method uses the same head to read both servo and data information, allowing all surfaces to be used for data storage.
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