Subject | English | Maltese |
mech.eng. | bursting disk | disk li jinfaqa' |
IT | digital versatile disk | diska diġitali versatili |
IT | digital video disk | diska diġitali versatili |
comp., MS | digital video disk | diska vidjo-diġitali (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 drive | drajv tad-diska (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
comp., MS | disk partition | taqsima tad-diska (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
comp., MS | floppy disk | diskett (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 | drajv tad-diskett (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
IT | hard disk drive | diska riġida |
comp., MS | hard disk drive | drajv tal-ħardisk (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
comp., MS | Microsoft Disk Operating System | Sistema Operattiva MS-DOS (A Microsoft computer operating system with a command-line interface that is used to control many internal computer functions, such as running programs and organizing and maintaining files) |
mech.eng. | rupture disk | disk li jinfaqa' |
comp., MS | virtual disk | diska virtwali (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |