| English | Portuguese |
| available disk space | espaço em disco disponível (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available disk space | espaço disponível no disco (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available disks | discos disponíveis (A storage pool that exposes physical disks that are currently available for inclusion in a storage pool on a particular storage subsystem) |
| available hard disk space | espaço em disco disponível (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available hard disk space | espaço disponível no disco rígido (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| basic disk | disco básico (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) |
| boot disk | disco de inicialização (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) |
| cluster disk resource | recurso de disco de cluster (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disco rígido virtual diferencial (" 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.") |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disco rígido virtual de diferenciação (" 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.") |
| digital video disk | disco de vídeo digital (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) |
| digital video disk | 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) |
| disk access time | tempo de acesso a disco (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) |
| disk-based web site | site baseado em disco (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| disk-based web site | Web site baseado em disco (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| disk bottleneck | afunilamento de disco (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| disk bottleneck | constrangimento de disco (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| disk cache | cache de disco (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) |
| disk configuration information | informações de configuração do disco (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) |
| disk configuration information | informação sobre a configuração do disco (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) |
| disk directory | diretório do disco (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) |
| disk drive | unidade de disco (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| disk duplication | duplicação de disco (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) |
| disk duplication | duplicação de discos (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) |
| disk extent | extensão de disco (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
| disk partition | partição de disco (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| disk space | espaço em disco (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| double density disk | disco de densidade dupla (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) |
| double-density disk | disco de densidade dupla (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) |
| double-density disk | disco de dupla densidade (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) |
| dynamic disk | disco dinâmico (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) |
| Dynamic Disk Fair Share | Fração Justa e Dinâmica de Disco (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| Dynamic Disk Fair Share | Fração Justa Dinâmica do Disco (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| dynamically expanding virtual hard disk | disco rígido virtual de expansão dinâmica (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) |
| Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistente para Edição de Discos Rígidos Virtuais (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) |
| Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistente de Edição de Discos Rígidos Virtuais (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) |
| fixed-size virtual hard disk | disco rígido virtual de tamanho fixo (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) |
| floppy disk | disquete (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) |
| floppy disk drive | unidade de disquete (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| floppy disk drive | unidade de disquetes (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| hard disk | disco rígido (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| hard disk drive | unidade de disco rígido (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| high-density disk | disco de alta densidade (A floppy disk that can hold up to 1.44 MB) |
| hybrid hard disk | disco rígido híbrido (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) |
| leaf disk | disco folha (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| leaf disk | disco de folha (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| MBR disk | disco MBR (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| Microsoft Disk Operating System | Sistema operacional 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) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistente para Criação de Discos Rígidos Virtuais (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) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistente de Novo Disco Rígido Virtual (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) |
| out of disk space | espaço em disco insuficiente (Pertaining to a computer that is running low on disk space, typically used in a message to the user) |
| pass-through disk | disco pass-through (A physical disk or logical unit number (LUN) that is mapped directly and exclusively to a virtual machine) |
| physical disk resource | recurso Disco Físico (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| physical disk resource | recurso de disco físico (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| Primary disk | disco primário (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| quorum disk | disco de quorum (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) |
| quorum disk | disco de quórum (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) |
| Redundant Array of Independent Disks | RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (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) |
| Redundant Array of Independent Disks 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 | RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) |
| unallocated disk space | espaço em disco não alocado (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| undo disk | disco de desfazer (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) |
| Universal Disk Format 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 | formato UDF (Universal Disk Format) |
| virtual disk | disco virtual (A non-physical disk exposed to the user as if it were a real disk. The disk may be backed by either a file or memory) |
| Virtual Disk Service | Serviço de Disco Virtual (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) |
| Virtual Disk Service | Serviço de Discos Virtuais (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) |
| virtual floppy disk | disquete virtual (A file-based version of a physical floppy disk. A virtual floppy disk is stored as a file with a .vfd file name extension) |
| virtual hard disk | disco rígido virtual (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) |
| Windows Disk Diagnostic | Diagnóstico de Disco do Windows (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) |
| Windows Disk Protection | Proteção de Disco do Windows (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) |
| witness disk | disco testemunha (For a failover cluster, a disk in the cluster storage that is designated to hold a copy of the cluster configuration database. A failover cluster has a witness disk only if this is specified as part of the quorum configuration) |
| zero power optical disk drive | unidade de disco óptico consumo zero (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) |
| zero power optical disk drive | unidade de disco ótico de consumo zero (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) |