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3.4 Definitions

ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment interface.

Parallel ATA Drive: An ATA hard drive whose data interface uses a 40 pin (40

or 80 conductor) ribbon cable.

Serial ATA Drive: An ATA hard drive whose data interface uses a 7 pin cable.

Source Drive: The hard drive from which the source data is read from during a

copy operation.

Target Drive: One of 8 hard drives that the data is written to during either a

copy or wipe operation.

Clone: The process of performing a sector-by-sector copy operation from the

source drive to each of the target drives.

Wipe: The process of writing zeros to every sector of the target drives.

SHA Hash: The value that is generated by calculating a SHA-256 hash on every

sector of a drive.

Host Protected Area (HPA): A reserved area for data storage outside the

normal operating file system.

Device Configuration Overlay (DCO): A virtual device configuration for the

hard drive which may change the drive size and/or other properties.

Ctrl: The keyboard control key.

HD or HDD: Hard Drive, also called the Hard Disk Drive.

GB: Gigabyte: 1000000000 bytes.

MB: Megabyte: 1000000 bytes.

KB: Kilobyte. 1024 bytes.