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Access Time: "Seek Time"
+ "Rotational Latency" = "Access Time" the time
it takes to exactly locate data on a drive.
Actuator: A mechanical assembly
that positions the read/write head assembly over the appropriate
tracks.
Actuator Motor: The motor that
moves the read/write head assembly over the appropriate tracks.
Array: Two or more hard disks
that read and write the same data. In a RAID system, the operating
system treats the array as if it were a single hard disk.
ATM: asynchronous transfer
mode; a network architecture that divides messages into fixed-size
units (cells) and establishes a switched connection between the
originating and receiving stations; enables transmission of various
types of data (video, audio, etc.) over the same line without one
data type dominating the transmission.
Automatic Turbo FATs: Improve
the speed of disk reads because NetWare 386 automatically indexes
large files. A Turbo-FAT exists for cads randomly accessed file
that is large enough to take up more than 64 FAT entries. By utilizing
this method, NetWare does not need to scan every FAT entry searching
for pointers to disk allocation blocks because the Turbo FAT tables
store the pointers where those disk allocation blocks are assembled.
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