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Acronym Term Definition Comment Picture
MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III An audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music o  
Partition Hard Drive Partition a logical division of a hard disk created so that you can have different operating systems on the same hard disk or to create the appearance of having separate hard drives for file management, multiple users, or other purposes.  
S.M.A.R.T. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology A system BIOS and hard drive feature that monitors hard drive performance, disk spin up time, temperature, distance between the head and the disk, and other mechanical activities of the drive in order to predict when the drive is likely to fail.  
SCSI Small Computer System Interface ) A fast interface between a host adapter and the CPU that can daisy chain as many as 7 or 15 devices on a single bus.  
PATA Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment The original "integrated drive electronics" (IDE) technology that transferred data from the hard disk over a parallel data channel to the motherboard. After Serial ATA (SATA) drives were introduced, the PATA term was coined to refer to IDE drives. Althoug  
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment The standard hardware interface for connecting hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs) and CD/DVD drives to the computer. Introduced in 2001, nearly all computers use SATA drives.  
EIDE Enhanced IDE A standard for managing the interface between secondary storage devices and a computer system. A system can support up to four parallel ATA IDE devices such as hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and DVD drives.  
Double-Sided Double-Sided A DIMM feature whereby memory chips are installed on both sides of a DIMM.  
Dual Channels Dual Channels A motherboard feature that improves memory performance by providing two 64-bit  
Router Router the device that serves as a “traffic cop” in a connectionless network such as the Internet.
Routers are specialized computers that take incoming packets and compare their destination
addresses to internal routing tables and, depending on network conditi		  
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