Introduction1
19-inch rack1
4K video3
5.25-Inch Floppy Disk3
Hard-sectored vs. soft-sectored disks7
AES-256-CCM9
AHCI9
Allocate-on-flush9
ACID properties10
Adler-3210
Air Gapping10
Active Directory (short "AD")11
AFP (Apple Filing Protocol)11
ARIES12
Auto-Tiering12
ATA over Ethernet13
Authentication14
Bandwidth15
BeeGFS15
Bin Locking (in Video Editing Systems)15
Bit rot16
Block cipher16
Block Level17
Block Storage19
Btrfs20
Checksumming20
checksum algorithm21
Ceph (distributed parallel file system)21
CIFS21
Cloud Storage22
Cloning22
Cluster22
Clustered file system23
Cold Storage23
Coercivity24
Common Redundant Power Supply (CRPS)25
Content-addressable Storage25
Copy on Write25
Converged Ethernet26
CSP (Cloud Service Provider)27
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)27
Cylinder-Head-Sector27
Data Corruption28
Data Lake28
Data Lakehouse29
Deduplication29
DMZ30
Distributed file system30
Drive bay form-factors30
8.0-Inch31
5.25-Inch32
Full-height:32
Half-height:32
3.5-Inch33
Note on abbeviations33
eCryptfs34
Edge Computing34
EncFS34
Edit while Capture35
EtherDrive35
Ethernet35
Erasure Coding36
Error correction code (ECC)36
eSATA37
ESDI37
ETL Process37
exFAT37
EXR (Extended Dynamic Range)37
Extent38
Extended file attributes38
FAT39
Fibre channel (FC)40
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)40
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)40
File Level storage (vs. block level storage)41
File System41
File Storage42
Fileserver42
Flash file system43
Floppy disk43
FTP44
File virtualization45
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)45
GIO46
Global file systems46
Gopher46
GPFS46
Grid file systems46
GVfs47
GSS (GPFS Storage Server)47
Hadoop (HDFS)47
Half-rack format47
HAMR drive48
Related50
HBA (Host Bus Adapter)51
HDD51
Hierarchical file system53
High availability (HA)54
Hot plug54
hybrid cloud55
HyperSCSI55
Interconnection models55
Aligned comparison of OSI, TCP/IP and Fibre Channel interconnection models56
IPMI56
ISV Certified56
IOPS57
iSCSI57
IMF ("Interoperable Master Format")58
iWARP58
JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)59
Journaling file system59
LAN (Local Area Network)59
Latency60
LDAP60
Local Block Storage61
Log-structured file system61
LTFS (Linear Tape File System)61
LTO62
Lustre63
LUKS63
M.2 (NGFF)63
Massive array of idle drives (MAID)63
MAM (Media Asset Management)64
MAMR64
Managed Service Provider (MSP)65
What is a Media Defect Table?65
Metadata66
Metadata controller66
MFM Drive Interface67
ST506/ST41268
Reading MFM drives today69
Mirror70
mSATA (Mini-SATA)70
NAND flash memory70
NAS71
Nearline storage71
Network Switch72
NFS72
NLE (non-linear editing system)73
NTFS73
NVM Express (NVMe)73
... (omitted)
xattr106
XFS106
Zero-Copy107
Zettabyte Era107
ZFS108
More to read on Computer Data Storage108