| English | German |
| available disk space | verfügbarer Speicherplatz (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available disks | verfügbare Datenträger (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 | verfügbarer Speicherplatz auf der Festplatte (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| basic disk | Basisfestplatte (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 | Startdiskette (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 | Cluster-Datenträgerressource (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| compressed disk | komprimierter Datenträger (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 | differenzierende virtuelle Festplatte (" 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 | digitale Videodisk (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 | Festplattenzugriffszeit (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 | datenträgerbasierte Website (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| disk configuration information | Datenträgerkonfigurationsinformationen (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 operating system | Betriebssystem (A generic term describing any operating system that is loaded from disk devices when the system is started or rebooted) |
| disk space | Speicherplatz auf dem Datenträger (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| Disk Utilization report | Datenträgerverwendungsbericht (A DPS report that provides statistics on disk capacity, allocation, usage, and availability) |
| double density disk | DD-Diskette (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 | DD-Diskette (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-sided disk | doppelseitige Diskette (A floppy disk that can hold data on both its top and bottom surfaces) |
| dynamic disk | dynamischer Datenträger (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 | Dynamische gleichmäßige Datenträgerauslastung (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| dynamically expanding virtual hard disk | dynamisch erweiterbare virtuelle Festplatte (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 | Assistent zum Bearbeiten virtueller Festplatten (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 | virtuelle Festplatte mit fester Größe (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 | Diskette (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 | Diskettenlaufwerk (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| floppy disk drive | Diskettenlaufwerk (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| hard disk | Festplatte (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| hard disk drive | Festplattenlaufwerk (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| hard disk drive | Festplatte (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| hard disk drive | Festplattenlaufwerk (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| high-density disk | HD-Diskette (A floppy disk that can hold up to 1.44 MB) |
| hybrid hard disk | Hybridfestplatte (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 | Datenträger auf Blattebene (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| linked virtual hard disk | verknüpfte virtuelle Festplatte (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 | MBR-Datenträger (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistent für neue virtuelle Festplatten (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) |
| physical disk resource | physische Datenträgerressource (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| Primary disk | primärer Datenträger (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| quorum disk | Quorumdatenträger (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) |
| RAM disk | RAM-Datenträger (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) |
| removable disk | Wechseldatenträger (A disk that can be removed from a disk drive. Floppy disks are removable; hard disks usually are not) |
| unallocated disk space | nicht zugeordneter Speicherplatz (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| undo disk | Rückgängig-Datenträger (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 | Virtueller Datenträger (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 | virtueller Datenträger (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| Virtual Disk Service | Dienst für virtuelle Datenträger (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 | virtuelle Diskette (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 | virtuelle Festplatte (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 | Windows-Datenträgerdiagnose (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) |
| witness disk | Zeugendatenträger (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 | optisches Laufwerk mit Zero-Power (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) |