| English | Italian |
| available disk space | spazio disponibile su disco (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available disks | dischi disponibili (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 | spazio disponibile su disco rigido (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| basic disk | disco di base (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 di avvio (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 | risorsa disco del cluster (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| compressed disk | disco compresso (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) |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale differenze (" 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 | 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 di accesso al 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 | sito Web su disco (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| disk bottleneck | collo di bottiglia del disco (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| disk cache | cache del 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 controller | controller del disco (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) |
| disk drive | unità disco (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| disk duplication | duplicazione 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 extent | extent del disco (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
| disk operating system | Disk Operating System (A generic term describing any operating system that is loaded from disk devices when the system is started or rebooted) |
| disk partition | partizione del disco (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| disk space | spazio su disco (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| disk striping | striping del disco (The procedure of combining a set of same-size disk partitions that reside on separate disks (from 2 to 32 disks) into a single volume, forming a virtual stripe across the disks that the operating system recognizes as a single drive) |
| double density disk | disco a doppia densità (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 a doppia densità (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 dinamico (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 | Condivisione dinamica disco equa (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 rigido virtuale a espansione dinamica (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 | Modifica guidata disco rigido virtuale (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 rigido virtuale a dimensione fissa (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 | disco floppy (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 | unità floppy (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| hard disk | disco rigido (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| hard disk drive | unità disco rigido (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| high-density disk | disco ad alta densità (A floppy disk that can hold up to 1.44 MB) |
| hybrid disk | disco ibrido (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) |
| hybrid hard disk | disco rigido ibrido (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 foglia (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| linked virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale collegato (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) |
| MBR disk | disco MBR (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| Microsoft Disk Operating System | sistema operativo 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 | Creazione guidata disco rigido virtuale (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 | spazio su disco insufficiente (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 | risorsa Disco fisico (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| Primary disk | disco primario (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| quorum disk | disco 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) |
| removable disk | disco rimovibile (A disk that can be removed from a disk drive. Floppy disks are removable; hard disks usually are not) |
| system disk | disco di sistema (A disk that contains an operating system and can be used to boot a computer) |
| unallocated disk space | spazio su disco non allocato (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| undo disk | file modifiche disco (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) |
| virtual disk | disco virtuale (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| Virtual Disk Service | Servizio dischi virtuali (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 | disco floppy virtuale (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 rigido virtuale (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 | Diagnostica dischi 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 | Protezione disco di 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 di controllo (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 | unità disco ottico a 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) |