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8 Glossary

This document incorporates many industry- and device-specific words. Use the

following list to define a variety of terms and acronyms.

Term Definition

ATA Advanced Technology Attachment

ATAPI Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface

BER

Bit error rate, or percentage of bits that have errors relative to the total number of bits

received

DIPM

Device Initiated Link Power Management. The ability of the device to request SATA link

power state changes.

DMA Direct Memory Access

eMLC Enterprise Multi-Level Cell

EXT Extended

FP First Party

GB Giga-byte defined as 1x10

bytes

HDD Hard Disk Drive

Hot Plug

A term used to describe the removal or insertion of a SATA storage drive when the

system is powered on.

IOPS Input output operations per second

LBA Logical Block Address

MB Mega-bytes defined as 1x10

bytes

MLC Multi-Level Cell

MTBF Mean Time Between Failures

NCQ

Native Command Queuing. The ability of the SATA hard drive to queue and re-order

commands to maximize execution efficiency.

NOP No Operation

OS Operating System

Port The point at which a SATA drive physically connects to the SATA controller.

RMS Root Mean Squared

RPM Revolutions Per Minute

SAS Serial Attached SCSI

SATA Serial ATA

SFF Small Form Factor

SLC Single Level Cell

S.M.A.R.T.

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology: an open standard for developing

hard drives and software systems that automatically monitors a hard drive’s health and

reports potential problems.

SSD Solid-State Drive

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