| Subject | English | Kazakh |
| comp., MS | digital video disk | DVD дискі (A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 650 MB) and the use of laser optics rather than magnetic means for reading data. Optical disk storage commonly used for audio, video, and computer data. DVDs range in capacity from 4.7 GB to 17 GB, and can store significantly more than a CD-ROM) |
| comp., MS | disk bottleneck | Дискі өнімділігі ақауы (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| comp., MS | disk drive | дискіенгізгі (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| comp., MS | disk partition | дискі бөлімі (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| comp., MS | floppy disk | алмалы дискі (A reusable magnetic storage medium. The floppy disk used today is the rigid 3.5-inch microfloppy that holds 1.44 MB. It is called floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets) |
| comp., MS | floppy disk drive | алмалы дискіенгізгі (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| comp., MS | hard disk | қатты дискі (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| comp., MS | hard disk drive | қатты дискі (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| comp., MS | quorum disk | кворумдық дискі (The cluster disk on which configuration data is maintained in the quorum log, cluster database checkpoint, and resource checkpoints. The quorum disk is managed by the quorum resource, which is usually a special kind of physical disk resource) |
| comp., MS | virtual disk | виртуалды диск (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |