Definition that contains magnetic disk
- track (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- floppy a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
- allocation (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
- fragmentation (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
- diskette a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
- storage allocation (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
- disc space (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk
- hard disc a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit
- cyclic redundancy check an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data
- disk error error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk