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| Asistente para crear discos rígidos virtuales | New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard (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) |
| Asistente para editar discos duros virtuales | Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard (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) |
| controladora de disco | disk controller (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) |
| cuello de botella en disco | disk bottleneck (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| Diagnóstico de discos de Windows | Windows Disk Diagnostic (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) |
| disco básico | basic disk (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) |
| disco compacto | compact disc (An optical storage medium for digital data) |
| disco compacto de memoria de solo lectura | compact disc read-only memory (A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 650 MB) and the use of laser optics instead of magnetic means for reading data) |
| disco compacto grabable | compact disc-recordable (A type of CD-ROM that can be written (only once) on a CD recorder and read on a CD-ROM drive) |
| disco compacto regrabable | compact disc-rewritable (A type of CD on which files can be copied, erased, and replaced) |
| disco de quórum | quorum disk (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) |
| disco de vídeo digital | digital video disk (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) |
| disco duro | hard disk (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| disco duro híbrido | hybrid hard disk (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) |
| disco duro virtual | virtual hard disk (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) |
| disco duro virtual de diferenciación | differencing virtual hard disk (" 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.") |
| disco duro virtual de expansión dinámica | dynamically expanding virtual hard disk (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) |
| disco duro virtual de tamaño fijo | fixed-size virtual hard disk (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) |
| disco duro virtual vinculado | linked virtual hard disk (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) |
| disco grabable | writeable disc (A CD or DVD disc onto which files can be copied. Common writeable disc types include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW) |
| disco grabable | shiny media (A CD or DVD disc onto which files can be copied. Common writeable disc types include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW) |
| disco hoja | leaf disk (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| disco MBR | MBR disk (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| disco monosesión | single session-only disc (A recordable media (such as CD-RW) to which you can only write once without reformatting) |
| disco multisesión | multi session-capable disc (A recordable media to which you can write several times without reformatting) |
| disco para deshacer | undo disk (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) |
| disco principal | Primary disk (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| disco testigo | witness disk (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) |
| disco virtual | virtual disk (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| discos dinámicos | dynamic disk (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) |
| discos disponibles | available disks (A storage pool that exposes physical disks that are currently available for inclusion in a storage pool on a particular storage subsystem) |
| Distribución dinámica equilibrada de disco | Dynamic Disk Fair Share (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| duplicación de disco | disk duplication (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) |
| espacio disponible en disco | available disk space (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| espacio disponible en disco duro | available hard disk space (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| espacio en disco | disk space (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| espacio en disco insuficiente | out of disk space (Pertaining to a computer that is running low on disk space, typically used in a message to the user) |
| espacio en disco sin asignar | unallocated disk space (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| extensión de disco | disk extent (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
| formato de disco universal | 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) |
| Grabar un disco para compartir | Burn a Sharing Disc (A control that initiates burning a disc with selected pictures for sharing) |
| matriz redundante de discos independientes | 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) |
| partición de disco | disk partition (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| Protección de disco de Windows | Windows Disk Protection (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) |
| recurso de disco de clúster | cluster disk resource (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| recurso de disco físico | physical disk resource (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| reproductor de disco compacto | compact disc player (A device that reads the information stored on a compact disc. A compact disc player contains the optical equipment necessary for reading a disc's contents and the electronic circuitry for interpreting the data as it is read) |
| Servicio de disco virtual | Virtual Disk Service (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) |
| tiempo de acceso a disco | disk access time (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) |
| unidad de disco | drive (An area of storage that is formatted with a file system and has a drive letter. The storage can be a floppy disk, a CD or DVD, a hard disk, or another type of disk) |
| unidad de disco | disk drive (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| unidad de disco | floppy disk drive (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| unidad de disco duro | hard disk drive (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| unidad de disco óptico con consumo cero | zero power optical disk drive (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) |
