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3.4 Definitions
ATA:
Advanced Technology Attachment interface.
Parallel ATA Drive:
An ATA hard drive whose data interface uses a 40 pin (40
or 80 conductor) ribbon cable.
Serial ATA Drive:
An ATA hard drive whose data interface uses a 7 pin cable.
Source Drive:
The hard drive from which the source data is read from during a
copy operation.
Target Drive:
One of 8 hard drives that the data is written to during either a
copy or wipe operation.
Clone:
The process of performing a sector-by-sector copy operation from the
source drive to each of the target drives.
Wipe:
The process of writing zeros to every sector of the target drives.
SHA Hash:
The value that is generated by calculating a SHA-256 hash on every
sector of a drive.
Host Protected Area (HPA):
A reserved area for data storage outside the
normal operating file system.
Device Configuration Overlay (DCO):
A virtual device configuration for the
hard drive which may change the drive size and/or other properties.
Ctrl:
The keyboard control key.
HD or HDD:
Hard Drive, also called the Hard Disk Drive.
GB:
Gigabyte:
1000000000 bytes.
MB:
Megabyte:
1000000 bytes.
KB:
Kilobyte.
1024 bytes.
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