Vocab 2 Flashcards
_____ is inserted into a drive and allows a user to read and store data placed on it. It holds 1.44MB of data.
Floppy Disc
______ is the inability of the source device to keep the burner loaded with data, creates more coasters - that is, improperly burned and therefore useless CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs - than any other single problem.
Buffer Underrun
______ allows a user to write to a DVD erase what was written and write again. This format was pushed by all manufacturers but Sony and Phillips.
DVD-RW
is the Blu-ray equivalent of the standard DVD-ROM data format except it can store much more data.
BD-ROM
The disk you insert into this device arrived in 1987 and stored 1.44MB is called ________
3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive
_____ eliminated the high-definition format to become the only high-definition and high-capacity optical format.
Blu-Ray Disk
____ located on a CD or DVD ROM that allows it to automatically play when inserted into a drive.
Autorun.inf
____ gives a PC the ability to access data on a Flash Media device
Card Reader
____ means they plug into ATA controllers on the motherboard, just like a hard drive, so you don’t need to install drivers.
ATAPI Compliant
You use ____ to perform a method of preventative maintenance on floppy drives to scour gently inside the drive for dust and other particles.
Cleaning Kit
_____ is the equivalent of the standard CD-ROM data format except that it’s capable of storing up to almost 16 GB of data.
DVD-ROM
_____ a medium that was originally designed more that 25 years ago as a replacement for vinyl records.
Compact Disc
the CompTIA A+ exams refer to dual-layer DVDs as this.
DLDVD
the name given to the disc that the “Powers That Be” created a special method for storing data on a disk. It divides the disk into fixed sectors, each holding 2353 bytes.
CD-ROM
you can write to this Blu-Ray Disc one time.
BD-R
took over the burning market from CD-R drives.
CD-RW
Floppy drives connect to the computer using this.
34-Pin Ribbon Cable
the name the CompTIA A+ exams give to a rewriteable DVD.
Dual Layer DVD-RW
the oldest, most complex, and physically largest of all removable flash media cards.
Compact Flash
term used by the industry to distinguish the movie format from the data formats for versatile discs.
DVD-Video
also called the Auto Insert Notification option this setting enables Windows to detect automatically the presence of audio or data optical discs when they are placed in the drive.
Autoplay
Sony and Phillips pushed this series of Rewritable DVD Disks.
DVD+RW
this type of Blu-Ray allows the user to Write and Erase to a Disc several times.
BD-RE
introduced in the mid-1990’s this standard enables data to be added to a disc.
CD-R
the first CD’s that were designed for playing music and organizing the music in a special format were called this.
CDDA
a file system also called ISO-9660 devised by CD manufacturers that allows non-PC devices to read CDs. The vase majority of data CD-ROMs use this format today.
CDFS
The generic term for all types of shiny, 12-centimeter-wide discs.
Optical Disc
Production movies on DVD & Blu-ray often have this which enables you to play movies only on a player that shares it
Region Code
The most common flash media format today.
Secure Digital (SD)
Works with your Stereo system to do burning of Music CD’s
Music CD-R
Known as wavelet compression to create files that are more compact than either JPEG or QuickTime files.
MPEG 4
This gives the user the ability to go back and burn additional data onto the CD-R disc until the disc is full.
Multi-session Drives
This card is about 1/2 the size of an SD card and almost always used in Olympus and Fujifilm digital cameras.
Extreme Digital (XD) Picture Card
This supports Optical discs.
Optical Drive
DVD-video relies on this standard of video and audio compression to reach the magic of two hours of video per side
MPEG-2
This is where the red wire on a ribbon cable should be inserted on the controller.
Pin 1
the main competitor to CF cards and for a few years was quite popular in digital cameras.
Smart Media
These are true hard drives, using platters and read/write heads that fit into the tiny CF form factor.
Micro Drive
This device makes it incredibly easy to move data between computers and a 32-GB one of these holds as much data as 22,000 standard 3 1/2 inch floppy disks.
USB Thumb Drive
This supports a Floppy Disc
Floppy Drive
This is a replacement for ISO-9660 and all of its various extensions, resulting in a single file format that any drive and operating system can read.
Universal Data Format
Also called a Mine-Molex & Berg this connector provides power to the floppy drive.
Mini Power Connector
this is a “complete” copy of an optical disc.
ISO File
Refers to any type of mass storage device that you may use in one system and then physically remove from that system and use in another.
Removable Media
A proprietary device used by Sony that allows the storage of pictures, etc. Several of these are Standard, Pro, Duo, Pro Duo, and Micro.
Memory Stick
This format is also referred to as CDFS and is used in the vast majority of data CD-ROMs today.
ISO
