Your investments (mutual funds, stocks, etc.) are not insured against market risk â their value may go up or down depending on the market. You are, however, likely insured against the failure of your broker, or a bankâs brokerage subsidiary, by the Securities Investors Protection Corporation.
What is disk cloning? Disk cloning is the act of copying the contents of a computer's hard drive. The contents are typically saved as a disk image file and transferred to a storage medium, which could be another computer's hard drive or removable media such as a DVD or a USB drive. Purposes of disk cloning include:
Cassette: A pre-existing structure into which an insert can be moved. In molecular biology, a gene conversion process in which the old gene is replaced with a copy of a silent gene and the new copy becomes active. As the process involves replacing one ready made construct with another in an active slot, it is termed a cassette mechanism.