| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | available disks | 可用磁盘 (A storage pool that exposes physical disks that are currently available for inclusion in a storage pool on a particular storage subsystem) |
| comp., MS | basic disk | 基本磁盘 (A physical disk that can be accessed by MS-DOS and all Windows-based operating systems. Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives) |
| comp., MS | boot disk | 启动盘 (A floppy disk that contains key system files from a PC-compatible operating system that can boot, or start, the PC. A boot disk must be inserted in the primary floppy disk drive (usually drive A:) and is used when there is some problem with starting the PC from the hard disk, from which the computer generally boots) |
| comp., MS | cluster disk resource | 群集磁盘资源 (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| comp., MS | compressed disk | 压缩盘 (A hard disk or floppy disk whose apparent capacity to hold data has been increased through the use of a compression utility, such as Stacker or Double Space) |
| comp., MS | differencing virtual hard disk | 差异虚拟硬盘 (" A virtual hard disk that stores the changes or "differences" to an associated parent virtual hard disk for the purpose of keeping the parent intact. The differencing disk is a separate .vhd file that is associated with the .vhd file of the parent disk. Changes continue to accumulate in the differencing disk until it is merged to the parent disk.") |
| comp., MS | digital video disk | 数字视盘DVD (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 access time | 磁盘访问时间 (The time needed for a read/write head in a disk drive to locate a track on a disk. Access time is usually measured in milliseconds and is used as a performance measure for hard disks and CD-ROM drives) |
| comp., MS | disk arbitration | 磁盘仲裁 (The process that occurs when the cluster node that owned the quorum resource fails or is unavailable, and the remaining nodes determine which node will take ownership) |
| comp., MS | disk-based web site | 本地网站 (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| comp., MS | disk bottleneck | 磁盘瓶颈 (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| comp., MS | disk cache | 高速磁盘缓存 (A portion of a computer's random access memory (RAM) set aside for temporarily holding information read from disk. A disk cache does not hold entire files, as does a RAM disk (a portion of memory that acts as if it were a disk drive). Instead, a disk cache is used to hold information that either has recently been requested from disk or has previously been written to disk. If the required information remains in a disk cache, access time is considerably faster than if the program must wait for the disk drive mechanism to fetch the information from disk) |
| comp., MS | disk configuration information | 磁盘配置信息 (Information in the Windows registry on assigned drive letters, simple volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, spanned volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. You can change the disk configuration by using Disk Management) |
| comp., MS | disk controller | 磁盘控制器 (A special-purpose chip and associated circuitry that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's disk drive. A disk controller handles such tasks as positioning the read/write head, mediating between the drive and the microprocessor, and controlling the transfer of information to and from memory. Disk controllers are used with floppy disk drives and hard disks and can either be built into the system or be part of a card that plugs into an expansion slot) |
| comp., MS | disk directory | 磁盘目录 (An index of the files on a disk, analogous to a card catalog. A disk directory includes information about the files, such as their names, sizes, dates of creation, and physical locations on the disk) |
| comp., MS | disk drive | 磁盘驱动器 (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| comp., MS | disk duplication | 磁盘复制 (The process of using third-party hardware or software to copy a full master Windows installation onto the hard disks of multiple destination computers. The master computer and destination computers must have compatible hardware abstraction layers (HALs). The destination computer can be delivered directly to customers, or it might require additional processing on the factory production line) |
| comp., MS | disk extent | 磁盘盘区 (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
| comp., MS | disk partition | 磁盘分区 (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| comp., MS | disk space | 磁盘空间 (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| comp., MS | double-density disk | 双密度盘 (A disk created to hold data at twice the density (bits per inch) of a previous generation of disks. Early IBM PC floppy disks held 180 KB of data. Double-density disks increased that capacity to 360 KB. Double-density disks use modified frequency modulation encoding for storing data) |
| comp., MS | double-sided disk | 双面磁盘 (A floppy disk that can hold data on both its top and bottom surfaces) |
| comp., MS | dynamic disk | 动态磁盘 (A physical disk that provides features that basic disks do not, such as support for volumes that span multiple disks. Dynamic disks use a hidden database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and other dynamic disks in the computer. You convert basic disks to dynamic by using the Disk Management snap-in or the DiskPart command-line tool. When you convert a basic disk to dynamic, all existing basic volumes become dynamic volumes) |
| comp., MS | Dynamic Disk Fair Share | 动态磁盘公平共享 (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| comp., MS | dynamically expanding virtual hard disk | 动态扩充虚拟硬盘 (A virtual hard disk that grows in size each time it is modified. This type of virtual hard disk starts as a 3 KB .vhd file and can grow as large as the maximum size specified when the file was created. The only way to reduce the file size is to zero out the deleted data and then compact the virtual hard disk) |
| comp., MS | Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | 编辑虚拟硬盘向导 (A wizard that is used by advanced users to perform specific operations on their existing virtual hard disks such as compacting their virtual hard disk, merging it, converting it to another type or expanding its size) |
| comp., MS | fixed-size virtual hard disk | 固定大小虚拟硬盘 (A virtual hard disk with a fixed size that is determined and for which all space is allocated when the disk is created. The size of the disk does not change when data is added or deleted) |
| comp., MS | floppy disk | 软盘 (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 | 软盘驱动器 (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| comp., MS | hard disk | 硬盘 (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| comp., MS | hard disk drive | 硬盘驱动器 (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| comp., MS | hybrid hard disk | 混合硬盘 (A hard disk that contains a small amount of solid-state nonvolatile memory which, when used as a cache, can realize significant benefits such as faster booting, extended battery life, and a more rugged PC) |
| comp., MS | leaf disk | 叶磁盘 (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| comp., MS | linked virtual hard disk | 链接的虚拟硬盘 (A virtual hard disk that points to and uses an entire physical disk for the purpose of converting a data disk to a virtual hard disk. You cannot turn on a virtual machine if a linked disk is attached to the virtual machine) |
| comp., MS | MBR disk | MBR 磁盘 (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| comp., MS | Microsoft Disk Operating System | Microsoft 磁盘操作系统 (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) |
| comp., MS | New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | 新建虚拟硬盘向导 (A wizard that is used by advanced users to create custom virtual hard disks for virtual machines. The purpose of the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard is to gather the basic information from the user necessary to create a new virtual hard disk) |
| comp., MS | physical disk resource | 物理磁盘资源 (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| comp., MS | Primary disk | 主磁盘 (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| comp., MS | quorum disk | 仲裁磁盘 (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 | RAM disk | RAM 磁盘 (A simulated disk drive whose data is actually stored in RAM memory. A special program allows the operating system to read from and write to the simulated device as if it were a disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast, but they require that system memory be given up for their use. Also, RAM disks usually use volatile memory, so the data stored on them disappears when power is turned off. Many portables offer RAM disks that use battery-backed CMOS RAM to avoid this problem) |
| comp., MS | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | 独立磁盘冗余阵列 (A mechanism for storing identical data on multiple disks for redundancy, improved performance, and increased mean time between failures (MTBF). RAID provides fault tolerance and appears to the operating system as a single logical drive) |
| comp., MS | removable disk | 可移动磁盘 (A disk that can be removed from a disk drive. Floppy disks are removable; hard disks usually are not) |
| comp., MS | setup disk | 安装盘 (A disk that contains an operating system and can be used to boot a computer) |
| comp., MS | unallocated disk space | 未分配磁盘空间 (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| comp., MS | undo disk | 还原磁盘 (A virtual hard disk that stores the changes made to a virtual machine's guest operating system and data after the Undo Disks feature has been enabled for the virtual machine. Changes accumulate in the undo disk (.vud) file until you commit or discard the changes. Each time you shut down or turn off a virtual machine, you decide whether to keep, commit, or discard the changes) |
| comp., MS | Universal Disk Format | 通用磁盘格式 (A file system defined by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) that is the successor to the CD-ROM file system (CDFS). UDF is used for removable disk media like DVD, CD, and magneto-optic (MO) disks) |
| comp., MS | virtual disk | 虚拟磁盘 (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| comp., MS | Virtual Disk Service | 虚拟磁盘服务 (A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. VDS uses two sets of providers to manage storage devices. The built-in VDS software providers enable the management of disks and volumes at the operating system level. The VDS hardware providers enable the management of disk storage subsystems and are supplied by the hardware vendor) |
| comp., MS | virtual floppy disk | 虚拟软盘 (A file-based version of a physical floppy disk. A virtual floppy disk is stored as a file with a .vfd file name extension) |
| comp., MS | virtual hard disk | 虚拟硬盘 (The storage medium for a virtual machine. It can reside on any storage topology that the host operating system can access, including external devices, storage area networks, and network-attached storage. The file format is .vhd) |
| comp., MS | Windows Disk Diagnostic | Windows 磁盘诊断 (Feature of Windows that proactively detects impending disk failures and can alert the support center to replace the failing hard disk before total failure occurs. For administrators, this feature will guide them through the process of backing up their data so the hard disk can be replaced without data loss) |
| comp., MS | Windows Disk Protection | Windows 磁盘保护 (A feature that helps protect the Windows partition that contains the Windows operating system and other programs from being permanently modified from user session to user session) |
| comp., MS | zero power optical disk drive | 零耗电光驱 (Pertaining to the ability to reduce the power consumption of optical disk drives in the operating system to zero to save energy when the drives are not in use) |