| English | Spanish |
| available disk space | espacio disponible en disco (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available disks | discos disponibles (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 | espacio disponible en disco duro (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) |
| cluster disk resource | recurso de disco de clúster (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disco duro virtual de diferenciación (" 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) |
| disk access time | tiempo de acceso 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 bottleneck | cuello de botella en disco (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| disk controller | controladora de 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 | unidad de disco (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| disk duplication | duplicación 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 extent | extensión de disco (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
| disk partition | partición de disco (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| disk space | espacio en disco (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| dynamic disk | discos dinámicos (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 | Distribución dinámica equilibrada de 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 duro virtual de expansión dinámica (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 | Asistente para editar discos duros virtuales (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 duro virtual de tamaño fijo (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 | disco (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 | unidad de disquete (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| floppy disk drive | unidad de disco (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| hard disk | disco duro (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| hard disk drive | unidad de disco duro (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| hybrid hard disk | disco duro 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 hoja (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| linked virtual hard disk | disco duro virtual vinculado (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) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Asistente para crear discos rígidos virtuales (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 | espacio en disco insuficiente (Pertaining to a computer that is running low on disk space, typically used in a message to the user) |
| 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 principal (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| 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 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 | matriz redundante de discos independientes (RAID) |
| unallocated disk space | espacio en disco sin asignar (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| undo disk | disco para deshacer (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 | formato de disco universal (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) |
| virtual disk | disco virtual (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| Virtual Disk Service | Servicio 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 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 duro 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 discos de 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 | Protección de disco de 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 testigo (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 | unidad de disco óptico con consumo cero (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) |